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SADDAM HAILS ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATIONS (PEACENIKS YOU HAVE A NEW FRIEND - GIVE SADDAM A KISS!)
Reuters ^ | 1/18/03

Posted on 01/18/2003 12:45:51 PM PST by areafiftyone

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President Saddam Hussein hailed worldwide anti-war demonstrations on Saturday and said the protests showed that Iraq had international support for standing up to the United States.

Saddam ordered his top officers to look after their soldiers to gain their confidence and make sure they were well-fed and kept warm as they prepared to sacrifice their blood to defend Iraq.

Tens of thousands of people took part in protests across the globe on Saturday to demand that Washington abandon likely plans to invade Iraq over alleged weapons of mass destruction.

"They are supporting you because they know that evildoers target Iraq to silence any dissenting voice to their evil and destructive policies," Saddam told senior military officers and his son Qusay, the commander of the elite Republican Guards.

A recording of the meeting was broadcast on Baghdad's state- run television.

"Iraq's cause has become clear...it simply is that Iraqis are in their country while others cross the seas to reach them and tell them 'we want to share with you your country or we want to be the masters and you the followers'," Saddam said.

"We don't need to exert ourselves to make Iraqis understand that their cause is just. They understand that their cause is just," he added.

The United States is massing tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of tanks and aircraft, and several battleships and aircraft carriers to the Gulf to be ready to launch an offensive if Iraq's fails to disarm. Baghdad denies it has any nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

The Iraqi strongman, who said on Friday that U.S. troops would be committing suicide if they tried to take Baghdad, said Iraqis would not be defeated despite the superiority in arms and technology of the American military machine.

"You, as military people, know that the battle will only be determined by armies on the ground, but despite this your enemy has the capability of harming when it uses long-distance weapons," Saddam said.

But he said Iraq would emerge victorious.

"When a people believe in the justice of its cause, it can stand fast in the face of evil, no matter what equipment or technology it has. This is the lesson that you are teaching the world now," Saddam said.

He ordered the officers to look after soldiers and keep them warm, "like you would check on your young children before going to bed and check their blankets while they are sleeping."


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KEYWORDS: iraq; persiangulf; saddamhussein; war
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
Sums up what I think of them now and what I thought of them back in the late 60's/early 70's.
121 posted on 01/19/2003 5:44:54 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Bush/Cheney 2004)
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To: MadIvan; nutmeg
I hope the leftists are happy.

Unfortunately, Ivan, they are probably happy and proud about this.
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Thanks for the ping, nutmeg.
122 posted on 01/20/2003 7:31:29 AM PST by Bigg Red (Stay out da Bush's way!)
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To: balls
"The reason they didn't get much coverage is that there wasn't much to cover. It was overrun by dumb black Muslims. What a pathetic stupid bunch of Hussein sympathisers they are. The crowd thinned out toward the end of the day and it became very evident that even the liberal whites lost interest in their silly rantings. The march of the strangling hangers-on was hilarious!"

Yep...I was there and filmed the RAT MORONS walking around in a daisy chain sorta circle, chanting and beating on drums...the Left's REALLY become pathetic...LOL!!

MUD

BTW...apologize fer calling you a "MORON", but I like "BWAHAHAHAHA!!" and NEVER tire of it.

123 posted on 01/20/2003 8:23:12 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-Impeach Osama bil Clinton...NOW!!!!)
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To: Travis McGee
"These pacifist scumbags would say "you have no right to interfere! War is never the answer! Let's give more time for negotiations! ---While millions went up the chimneys."

Excellent point, Travis!! Good to see ya, dude...MUD

BTW...I'm "borrowing" yer tagline.

124 posted on 01/20/2003 8:25:19 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (WAR SOLVED HITLER!!!!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
Thanks, I'm honored.
125 posted on 01/20/2003 9:35:33 PM PST by Travis McGee (--------------------------- WAR SOLVED HITLER! -------------------------)
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To: areafiftyone; Grampa Dave
Scotty Boy might want to rethink his planned trip to Baghdad tomorrow, to kiss the ring of his lord and puppet-master, Saddam Insane. As of this moment, Scotty Boy's utility to Saddam Insane is precisely zip. In fact, one might say that he would be more useful to Saddam dead than alive. And that's never a good position to be in with respect to Saddam Insane.
126 posted on 01/20/2003 9:41:21 PM PST by The Great Satan
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To: Travis McGee
I've updated...LOL!!
127 posted on 01/20/2003 9:41:34 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (War Solved Hitler!!!! And WAR'll SOLVE the Axis of Evil!!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
I like the tagline function, I have a bunch in my quiver now!
128 posted on 01/20/2003 9:48:30 PM PST by Travis McGee (***PACIFISTS ARE THE PARASITES OF FREEDOM***)
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To: The Great Satan
As of this moment, Scotty Boy's utility to Saddam Insane is precisely zip.

Iraqi sleeper agent Scott Ritter codename PANDORAS BOX has been compromised.

Should he be foolhardy enough to venture to Baghdad he may return Saddamized, i.e., as a sack of parts, "some assembly required".

Karma: not just a theory--it's the law.

129 posted on 01/20/2003 9:55:01 PM PST by PhilDragoo
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To: PhilDragoo
In his next life, Scotty gets to come back as pimple on Saddam's backside. That would be karmically correct, n'est pas?
130 posted on 01/20/2003 10:02:04 PM PST by The Great Satan
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To: areafiftyone
So the big question is:

Did Uncle Soddomite get what he wanted from the money he invested in these so called peaceniks from Ramsey Clark to the left wing mediots to the renta mobbers in the streets?

The lefties in the world and in America are in real financial trouble when Uncle Soddomite, the Murdering Mullahs of Iran and other petty Islamofascists assume desert temps in 2003.

They have received a lot of blood money from these Opecker thugs, and that is about to dry up.

131 posted on 01/20/2003 10:43:06 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Free Republic, the site supported by those who don't believe in free lunches! Are you a donor?)
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To: The Great Satan
I don't know who is more dangerous for Scotty the Predator?

1. Uncle Soddomite?

2. The Clintoons who have fine tuned the famous Arkrazy suicides?

3. The losers in the UN, who need the UN for a paycheck?

As I previously posted a paraphrase of a movie title that might best describe Scotty the Predator at this point in time: "Dead Scotty Walking?"
132 posted on 01/20/2003 10:48:05 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Free Republic, the site supported by those who don't believe in free lunches! Are you a donor?)
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To: mach.08
" I'll state the question again, "Who armed Saddam in the first place???"

Answer: The French and the Russians. Including his entire airforce ( Russian and French) his airdefense system, (primarily French), his secure fiberoptic system linking his defense net together(repaired after the Gulf war by the PRC), his shelters (Germany, France) his armor, (Russian T-62s and T-72s), French and Russian helicopters, and so on. And don't forget his SCUDS, all Russian made which he used in the war of the cities
during his bloody war with Iran.

I hope this clears up your confusion
133 posted on 01/20/2003 11:14:05 PM PST by Rooivalk
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To: mach.08
"Slim Say's "The reason they didn't get much coverage is that there wasn't much to cover. It was overrun by dumb black Muslims."

Actually, my FRiend, Slim has never used the phrase "dumb black Muslims" in my entire life...I wuz quotin' an article, not agreein' with it!!

All my Black Muslim FRiends are anything but dumb, IMHO...MUD

136 posted on 01/21/2003 6:13:32 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (The NEW Axis of EVIL...Osama, Sodom, and SlickWillieClinton!!!)
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To: mach.08; FreeTheHostages; M. Thatcher; holdonnow; goldilucky
"You would be hard pressed in this country to get more than that (on either side of the issue) considering it was in the teens and some pro football was on the air."

That's a good thing, IMHO...the Race Issue ain't as big as the RACE-PIMPS like JessieJay and Al Sharpton would like America to believe it is!! This Reparations Issue has never once been viable--I'm part-Injun, how much do I git?--yet the RAT-bastards LIE to their constituents and pretend like it is!!

Jessie Jackson is a RACIST BIGOT!!

HymieTown FReegards...MUD

137 posted on 01/21/2003 6:19:25 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (The NEW Axis of EVIL...Osama, Sodom, and SlickWillieClinton!!!)
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To: Travis McGee
These pacifist scumbags would say "you have no right to interfere! War is never the answer! Let's give more time for negotiations! ---While millions went up the chimneys.

These are not pacifists, most of them cheered when it was Clinton bombing Yugoslavia. Their biggest fear is a Republican President succeeding and making them even more irrelevant.

138 posted on 01/21/2003 6:22:58 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: mach.08
" I'll state the question again, "Who armed Saddam in the first place???"

(Duh, please read up on this subject...please)

So you are claiming that shortly after Saddam come to power and was at war with IRAN, that US was not

complaisant in sending him a BILLION in military hardware???!!! "


During the cold war, Iraq was a Soviet client state. The Soviet Union supplied the majority of Iraqi weaponary. What he could not get from the Soviets he obtained from the French, Germans, and Chinese.

Example: The KARI integrated air-defense system of Iraq, designed and built by what was then Thomson-CSF of France.

Example:During the cold war, Czech arms companies supplied much of the Third World, including Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and North Korea, with high-tech military equipment and explosives.

Example: The reactor destroyed by the IDF in 1981, at the Osirak nuclear facility near Baghdad was built with French assistance. Iraq has admitted that they were months from completing a crude atomic weapon with this French help. Remember this was 1981.

These are just a few of the examples where during the arms build up of the 70s and 80s Iraq used its oil revenues to build up a modern military using French, Soviet and Eastbloc weaponary and systems.

While you seek to blame the United States for the aggressive policies of Saddam and Iraq, the real blame must be assigned to the Europeans and Soviets. It was they who armed Saddam

A quick review of the Iraqi arsenal during the 60s, 70s, and 80s, using the numerous sources available will confirm this. Check them for yourself and get educated. Get the real facts and quit posting silly nonsense.
139 posted on 01/21/2003 10:11:13 AM PST by Rooivalk
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To: Mudboy Slim
Jessie is not only a race baiter but also panders to the notion of race. If there's money to be made in pimping out corporations, for the sake of race, this man is beyond a bigot. He's a pimp who panders off of corporations in the notion of bringing them down to their knees. In other words, they don't have a right to exist unless they bow down to Jackson and his pimping comrades. Jackson needs to be shaken down to his knees and realize that in God's eyes he is an abomination for what he is doing not only to his own people but also to society! Let us also realize that Jackson is also a CFR member.
140 posted on 01/21/2003 10:30:55 AM PST by goldilucky
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