'Saddam' in speach read without glasses!?

[Dominic Harr]

Forgive the vanity, but I really think this might be important.

The fella in today's speach, didn't he read the entire thing without glasses?

He's clearly reading, for long pages at a time.

Anyone know if Saddam could pull that off?

[TADSLOS]

Lasik.

[Poohbah]

Finally found that bottle of contact lens cleaner.

[RMDupree]

ping.

[Boundless]

> The fella in today's speach, didn't he read the
> entire thing without glasses?
> Anyone know if Saddam could pull that off?

Didn't see it, but...
The "glasses" speech was the exception. SH reportely
normally wears contacts and reads from a teleprompter.

I suspect the war will be over before we get convincing
determinations on who was in these appearances, and when
they were made.

[Cagey]

"Found in the bunker."

[_Jim]

"Large print"

[Pharmboy]

That was Mini Me not Saddam...

[sarasota]

I already don't care if it was him or not. Not really the point of this war activity.

[Paul Atreides]

Maybe he just realized how he looked in them...

[YaYa123]

He could have contacts...which makes you wonder why he didn't use them in the earlier tape.

The print he's reading from could be giant sized...I didn't notice how big the pages were or how many times he flipped the pages.

We just don't know do we, if this was Saddam, or if this was old and highly edited old video... Mainly because we don't know if the words he spoke matched up to the words of the translator. I hope the CIA has an Iraqi lip reader.

and by the way.
What's the big deal of him being on television if the electricity in Baghdad is out? I mean, his appearance wouldn't "inspire" the people of Baghdad to fight if they couldn't see it.

[Paul Atreides]

Plus, he hasn't exactly been giving the Gettysburg address. Anyone could get in front of a camera and spout off that blather. He repeats some of the same lines and it sounds just like the same old drivel he would give in a speech before the war.

[Dominic Harr]

I had thought I heard someone, somewhere, say his eyesight was of the sort that he didn't have contacts for reading.

But I'm clueless about glasses, contacts, etc.

[Paul Atreides]

Could he have had an earpiece in his ear, like the newspeople use, and position the camera so that it doesn't show?

[_Jim]

"Large print"

Before the variable fonts of today there were special speech typewriters equipped with BIG FONTS ...

[skeeter]

Severe concussions have been known to correct various nuerological maladies, including poor vision.

[Dominic Harr]

Well, he is clearly reading, tho, I think.

CNN's HomePage has a link to it.

And it's one of those notebooks with brads at the top, certainly not printed by a machine. Maybe he wrote real, real big, but I don't know . . .

Certainly, in the long run, it doesn't matter.

He's dead one way or another.

[Dominic Harr]

Wouldn't that be funny?

Interesting point.

[VOA]

He's dead one way or another.

"We can kill you know, or we can kill you later."

(proposed statement for the United States Marine Corps to make to Saddam...)

[RonF]

How quickly did he go though each page? If the speech was printed in large type, he'd flip though them faster than if in small type.