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."
21. Do you support or oppose U.S. military action TO DISARM IRAQ AND REMOVE Iraqi President Saddam Hussein?They fail. We win. The end.67% Support 25% Oppose
I think you're right. He is a brutal thug who only stays in power through the torture and murder of his enemies and their families. I think we will see a lot of blinking faces crawling out of prisons and a lot of reunited families when he is overthrown.
Not that the media will carry any of their stories or show the physical scars they bear because this nut is in power - abstract ideas of "peace" are more palatable to viewers with low threshholds for the truth. Protestors will not confront these facts either. Abstract good intentions are enough for folks who want to feel good about themselves in between TV shows or while pondering which book to be seen reading at the Expresso Hut.
I'm sure both their viewers were ecstatic.
Their aircraft come from Russia and France
Their missile tech from Russia, France and China
Their bombs from the Russia
Their air defense system from Russia and China and France
Their nuclear program brought to them by Germany and Brazil
Their chemical program by Russia, France, Germany
Their navy was from France, I believe...
Yugostavia contrbuted some help with things
And everything was tweaked with bits and pieces purchased from corporations around the globe in nearly every country, including some kidney dialysis machines and spare switches and some capacitors from US companies and some ring magnets which came from somewhere, seems like Japan rings a bell.
Next question?
I think at this point, these failures are planned, the frequency of them would suggest so. There will aways be the "peace-nic" crowd....people have nothing else to do. Pay them no mind, its a mindset programmed into our children when they attend school, especially college.(you probably acted the same way when you were young)
No, I've been conservative and pro-military since I was about four, partly due to my Grandfather, whose ship was the USS Arizona, and due to my pastor who despised the World Council of Churches, and due to having a sister egged in Berlin by communist brats while wearing this country's uniform not far from that gloomy communist wall... and due to attending every memorial day service in St. Louis throughout life, and due to having two newspapers in the house, one the lib Post-Dispatch and one the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. And learning to read at four from the Encyclopedia of WW2- graphically illustrated- pretty much killed any chance of me ever being a bottomfeeding, hateful, bondage-loving liberal. You see, if you aren't brought up to be naive and cruel, you won't grow into adulthood building puppets for pro-terrorist rallies.
One needs to merely plan on cutting back on frills and unnecessary travel during these times of trouble....save the fuel for our fighting men!
I'm saving a great big ball of aluminum for ye.
I think we're going to see a lot of that kind of thing. I think we may see the whole nation of Iraq rejoice. Your image of the blinking faces is a good one, and I think it might serve as a kind of metaphor for all of Iraq -- with them raising their faces towards a present and a future that is Saddam-free.
Any joy and/or appreciation the Iraqis show will be to the Left's shame.
They remember. As far as they're concerned, that was the day America got what she deserved. Now they're taking to our streets to celebrate their hatred of our nation.
These are the enemies of America, and they're preparing for an all-out propaganda war on behalf of their Stalinist idols.
Thank God for Free Republic, Drudge, WND, AM radio and FNC. We're much better equipped to fight their lies than we were 30 years ago.
I'd rather stare into an eclipse than look at those wrinkled bags of expired granola.
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