Na, he is not right he is just deluded, he was a murderous despot
that was kept in the dark because those under him did not want to be
the bearer of bad news and get shot along with maybe their familes.
i disagreed with the US miltary going there and think they should get
out now because they are doing more harm than good, the cost to
lives, property and incomes of Americans and Iraqis is way to much
for an indept Centrally managed Pentgon running the show, just like
all monoply Central planning of a Marxist or Facist or corporativist
nature monoply Central Planning for defense and liberarting people
is a very very bad idea, actually a Centrally planned miltary may be
a bit worse than a Centrally planned econmy but both are very costly,
unproductive, unAmerican, against liberty and harmful to the poor and
innocent.
It is very good that Saddam is no longer in power and helping
to liberarate people that want to be liberared is a noble and can be
a very productive cause but using the US miltary or the other central
government partners is a piss poor way of getting the job done.--- In
[email protected], "John Stroebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
> So Saddam sez that the USA, meaning Bush and Rumsfeld, will come
> a-beggin' for his help.
>
> Well, in the guy's defence, he DID keep the peace there..and WE
fucked
> EVERYTHING up.
>
> Saddam sez that this would be the only way for us to get OUTA
there....
>
> maybe he is right!!!!
>
> See, we had a plan to bomb the place into paste, but the plan ended
> there. We now see the outcome.
>
> Saddam sez he can pull the strings to get the violence to stop.....
>
> ya think Rumsfeld and Bush give a shit if the violence stops???
>
> I say give the guy the job....he may just be the most credible,
> intelligent and able person in this entire mess!
>
>
>
> Saddam believes U.S. will beg for his help By JAMAL HALABY,
Associated
> Press Writer
> 21 minutes ago
>
>
> AMMAN, Jordan - Saddam Hussein believes the United States will have
to
> seek his help to quell the bloody insurgency in Iraq and open the
way
> for U.S. forces to withdraw, his chief lawyer said Sunday.
>
>
> Khalil al-Dulaimi argued in an interview with The Associated Press
that
> the former leader is the key to returning stability to Iraq.
>
> "He's their last resort. They're going to knock at his door
eventually,"
> the lawyer said. Saddam is "the only person who can stop the
resistance
> against the U.S. troops."
>
> There is no indication U.S. officials have considered seeking his
help.
> While Saddam's once dominant fellow Sunni Arabs are the backbone of
the
> insurgency, the Shiite Muslim majority and Kurds repressed by his
regime
> would be enflamed by his presence.
>
> The comments from Al-Dulaimi, the head of Saddam's defense team,
> portrayed a deposed leader who seems to hold out hope he can
bargain his
> way out of trials that threaten him with the death penalty.
>
> Al-Dulaimi said Saddam brought up the topic during a meeting
Tuesday,
> and indicated he would be willing to help the United States "for
> the sake of saving both peoples the Iraqis and Americans."
>
> He quoted Saddam as saying:
>
> "These puppets in the Iraqi government that the Americans brought to
> power are helpless. They can't protect themselves or the Iraqi
people.
> The Americans will certainly come to me, to Saddam Hussein's
legitimate
> leadership and to the Iraqi Baath Party, to rescue them from their
huge
> quandary."
>
> Although he would not say exactly what Saddam might ask in return
for
> helping, al-Dulaimi said it would not necessarily involve being
> reinstated as president of Iraq a nation he ruled brutally and
> plunged into three devastating wars.
>
> The lawyer suggested, though, that Saddam might be willing to
negotiate
> such help by making the verdict in his trial a bargaining chip.
>
> Saddam and seven of his former officials are on trial in the deaths
of
> 148 people during a crackdown on a Shiite village, and Iraqis widely
> expect the ousted leader to be sentenced to be hanged. He also is
due to
> begin a second trial that could end with the death penalty.
>
> When Saddam mentioned he expected the Americans to seek his help,
> al-Dulaimi said he asked the former leader if he would really be
willing
> to help the country who toppled him from power.
>
> Saddam replied that he would, said al-Dulaimi, a Sunni who considers
> Saddam to remain Iraq's legitimate president.
>
> "We will do that for the sake of preventing more bloodshed, for the
> liberty of all Iraqis," al-Dulaimi quoted Saddam as saying.
>
> Saddam predicted Iraq would "flourish within five years," saying
that
> was the time that would be needed for reconstruction that would
> transform the country into the envy of the region, the lawyer said.
>
> He said Saddam also believes he will be given the death penalty in
the
> current trial, which began in October. The prosecution summed up its
> case last Monday, and defense lawyers are to begin their final
arguments
> July 10, after which the five judges are expected to take several
months
> to reach a verdict.
>
> Al-Dulaimi claimed the outcome of the trial has already been
determined.
>
> "The ongoing trial and verdict, which are already decided by
Washington,
> are expected to result in the death penalty," he said.
>
> "The death penalty is political blackmail to pressure President
Saddam
> to help the American forces out of their predicament in Iraq and to
> rescue it from the mess it created there."
>
> Al-Dulaimi said Washington also should look to Saddam as the only
person
> who can stop the growing influence of Iran and radical Shiite
> Muslims in the region.
>
> Pointing to Saddam's 1980-88 war with Iran a conflict in which the
> United States and others backed Iraq he said Saddam served as a
> counterbalance to Iranian power.
>
> The Bush administration should recognize the "hard reality" that the
> U.S. invasion of Iraq delivered the mostly secular Arab nation into
the
> hands of Shiites strongly sympathetic to their larger Iranian
neighbor,
> the lawyer said.
>
> "Iran is the enemy of Arabs, Islam and the United States, and the
only
> person who can stand in the face of Iran is Saddam Hussein," he
said.
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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