Saddam Urges Iraqis in TV Message to Hit Invaders

Reuters ^ | 4/1/2003 | Reuters Wire

[ConservativeVoice]

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) said in a message to the Iraqi people Tuesday that jihad (holy war) was a religious duty and he urged them to fight invading U.S. and British troops wherever they found them.

"Jihad is a duty. Whoever dies will be rewarded by heaven ... This is what God requested of you," said Saddam's message, read out on state television by Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf.

"Hit them, fight them ... Fight them everywhere," the message sa

[ConservativeVoice]

Nothing new and read by his Info Minister. This guy is dead, or in a hospital somewhere.

[wideawake]

There is no evidence that this message comes from Saddam Hussein - only the claim of the flunky reading it.

Yet Reuters dutifully reports it as a statement from the Great Leader himself.

[linn37]

hey Reuters Saddam did'nt say anything.

[b4its2late]

He's dead, Jim!

[humblegunner]

Poor dead bastard.. he does indeed have a demanding job.

[Yankee]

Dead Man Talking

[Lee Heggy]

"The aggression that the aggressors are carrying out against the stronghold of faith is an aggression on the religion, the wealth, the honor and the soul and an aggression on the land of Islam,"

The minister of Info needs a thesaurus.

[kesg]

There is no evidence that this message comes from Saddam Hussein - only the claim of the flunky reading it.

Yet Reuters dutifully reports it as a statement from the Great Leader himself.

It is amazing how gullible and uncritical some of our so-called skeptical, critical media becomes when they "report" anti-American, anti-coalition, Iraqi propaganda as actual news.

[itzmygun]

Watched Futurama Sunday night, eh? (haha)

[ConservativeVoice]

Just a thought...

Does this remind anyone of the Star Trek episode where Kirk & Co spend time on a planet full of Nazis following their drugged and incoherent founder who's propped up by his deputy as a convenient tool to maintain power?

Gee...maybe life does initate art.

[blackdog]

Actually that was Bones, to Kirk. I love futurama. Is it still on? I thought Fox yanked it. A show almost as good as ABC's Family Guy.

[expatpat]

He's trying to emulate a Black sermon, like Jesse Jackson's.

[MassExodus]

"Jihad is a duty. Whoever dies will be ... dies will be.... dies will be .... dies will be .... ( needle scratching sound ) rewarded by heaven ... This is what God requested of you,"

[Hazzardgate]

Family Guy was FOX too...

FUTURAMA has been cancelled but there are still about 15 episodes left for FOX to show.

[COBOL2Java]

Number 5,143,456,874! Hussein, you're next!

[Publius]

I'm going to go out on a limb here.

It's been said that Saddam's people have watched "Black Hawk Down" over and over to learn how to fight us. I now believe that they've been watching "Weekend at Bernie's".

Uday and Qusay took it during that decapitation attack. They're dead.

Saddam was wounded badly enough that the Iraqis asked for the Russians to send a surgeon -- not knowing that Russian medicine is still firmly planted in the 19th Century. (Saddam probably had a crushed chest and third degree burns.)

With the possibility, however remote, that Saddam might survive, the top people felt the need to remain loyal to him. The entire "Weekend at Bernie's" routine was to keep the top Baathists and military people in line, instead of watching them surrender at the first sight of allied troops.

I believe Saddam finally died several days ago. The families of Baathist insiders, usually kept as hostages, are in the process of leaving the sinking ship. The black-clad Baathist thugs are the only thing holding the resistance together, and it's important they believe that their master is alive.

Once this thing is over, we're going to find out that the decapitation worked, and Iraq was held together by a few desperate men who based their tactics on an American comedy.

[Poohbah]

'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This tyrant is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the chair 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-SADDAM!!

[wideawake]

I've read that Blackhawk Down bit too.

The problem for the erstwhile Saddam & Co. is that you need the US to repeat the mistakes over again, precisely and repeatedly, for the movie to be a useful tool.

[shotgun]

It ain't just reuters. BBC, Fox, CNN and MSNBC are reporting and commenting on this message from saddam.

this reminds me of those old Jon Lovitz skits from Saturday Night Live where he would lie like a dog and say "Yeah thats the ticket"

[MassExodus]

E'S F#&*ing SNUFFED IT !