I was thinking that too. I really didn't see the point of his news conference and I wondered aloud if he was sending some sort of message to Iraq.
As a side note, do you remember when Bush Sr. deliberately mis-pronounced Saddam's name so that it translated to "boot licker".Apparantly it infuriated Saddam.
Yeah - George Herbert Bush used to pronounce it "Sad am". I noticed for a while Rumsfeld was mispronouncing OBL's name too but don't know the purpose or translation.