[choosetheright]

I agree except that the translations available so far indicate that "Saddam" referred to a peasant shooting down an Apache, not just shooting down something. But it's still not hard to imagine that this was filmed pre-war and then the Iraqis made up the farmer story when the first Apache went down so that they could use this tape later. The media is incredibly gullible to report that these tapes "prove" anything one way or the other. (Like the writers who claimed the earlier "Saddam" tape proved he was alive just because it referred to Umm Qasr.) Considering that there are an infinite number of unambiguously contemporaneous things that Saddam could say, I don't think today's tape proves anything, although it certainly fuels the mystery.

[netmilsmom]

Maybe "Black Hawk Down" was in Saddam's video library.
Until he has a newspaper sitting in front of him. (they did that with Daniel Pearl) I believe Nothing.