[VRWC_minion]

Any more information that it wasn;t Saddam ? To tell you the truth it didn't look like the file photo's I'm used to seeing of him. Not only his looks but his demeanor looked very different.

[UncleSamUSA]

I'm trying to catch up on the "Was it really Saddam" threads here, but I can tell you one thing:

If it really was the authentic Saddam speaking, then Saddam seemed to be shocked and awed by the attempt on him because he looked terrible. Gaunt. Robotic. Flipping over pages on a notepad in a move even a high school debater would shun.

That is one shocked dude, if it was indeed the authentic dude. And what was with the glasses and the goofy beret? At first he looked like a puffy version of the aged Groucho Marx to me, complete with a not-quite-right mustache.

[wharfrat]

You would too if your drawers were full of $hit;and the father of two sadistic idiot sons!

[VRWCTexan]

I agree - my guess is that it was a very scared "double" forced to go on camera.

[6ppc]

Another thread shows some side by side vidcaps, and I don't think it was Saddam. Saddam has a dimple in his chin and the guy on last night didn't. Also the nose wasn't quite right.

[Ditter]

We didn't think it was Saddam either. Even before Fox started talking about doubts, we decided he didn't look the same. Even his body looked different, thinner shoulders. His face looked flabby & older. Also he didn't seem to be riled up enough if his country was already being bombed. I think he has already cut out. (But we cursed his moustache anyway)

[FairOpinion]

If THIS was Saddam, who was the guy interviewed by Dan Rather?

[mass55th]

Any more information that it wasn't Saddam ? To tell you the truth it didn't look like the file photo's I'm used to seeing of him. Not only his looks but his demeanor looked very different.

This guy's shoulders looked rather slim for it to be Saddam.