BAGHDAD, Iraq, Thursday, March 20 — Iraqi television broadcast a speech by a defiant Saddam Hussein this morning, a few hours after the first blasts on Baghdad. In it, he exhorted his people to "draw your swords" against invaders and referred to the United States government as "criminals" and "Zionists."

"God willing, we will take them to the limit where they lose their patience and any hope to achieve what they have planned and what the Zionist criminals have pushed them to do," he said. It was unclear whether the address had been recorded previously.

According to one translation, he said, "The criminal little Bush has committed a crime against humanity." Another had him referring to "Junior Bush." .........Read

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/20/international/worldspecial/20BAGH.html

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