Saddam's Statement to Iraq

[Evanauto]

A defiant Saddam Hussein called on his people Friday to rise up and defend their nation against a U.S.-led attack and promised that Iraq's enemies would face "suicide" at the gates of his capital. In the 40-minute televised address, delivered on the 12th anniversary of the Gulf War, revealed no sign that Saddam was prepared to step down or bow to demands of the United Nations, which has sent inspectors to determine if Iraq has given up its weapons of mass destruction.

what can we do against saddam now?

[JudgeDredd]

defiance on both sides.. can only lead to 1 thing - pick a date for the begining of GW3.

[whitedragon-my]

Yes, and I suppose Saddam still considers the Persian Gulf War as "The Mother of All Wars". I think he's beginning to panic and finally realizes that there is no easy way out of this. It's either surrender and become another puppet of the US, or fight and get his ass handed to him and THEN become a puppet of the US.

Hopefully we'll come out of it without starting WW3.

[RandomFreak]

Considering how stubborn both Saddam and Bush are I don't see this ending in anything other then what should have been an easily preventable war.

[Zio-Shirai]

against saddam.....nothing, he's defending his nation, against the US surely, dont support it, its just an imperialist nation in search for oil. just dont support the war on iraq, if u dont mess with saddam and instead try to be his friend...that doesnt means getting his oil, then he wont do anything bad. btw, many ppl say that saddam threw chemical weapons to his own ppl, well, this werent his own ppl, they were rebels that wanted a war, so it wasnt at all unjustified

[TheEvilOne]

At 1/21/03 12:29 AM, Zio_Shirai wrote: against saddam.....nothing, he's defending his nation, against the US surely, dont support it, its just an imperialist nation in search for oil. just dont support the war on iraq, if u dont mess with saddam and instead try to be his friend...that doesnt means getting his oil, then he wont do anything bad. btw, many ppl say that saddam threw chemical weapons to his own ppl, well, this werent his own ppl, they were rebels that wanted a war, so it wasnt at all unjustified

Good God--Are you implying that Saddam is actually a GOOD leader? You make him out to be a peaceful ruler who only intends to defend his people. He is not. The Iraqi people would jump at the opportunity to eliminate Saddam. There are many groups in Iraq that want him dead. The Kurds are separatists, to be sure, but with a ruler like Saddam, you'd probably want to separate too. He is a DICTATOR. He does not represent the interests of his people, only his own. He has shown agression toward his neighbors, and has attempted to acquire weapons of mass destruction. We have evidence. Saddam has proven himself to be an unfit ruler, and should be ousted.

[Ted-Easton]

There are always groups who don'tlike the leader, but things in Iraq aren't near as bad as you say. There are hundreds of thousands of people who fanatically love Saddam.