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| Axis of Evil |
| Saddam slams inspectors, believes in his army |
| 2003-01-08 |
| Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the country's armed forces are stronger than in the 1991 Gulf War and Iraq is not Afghanistan. "In 1991, we lacked the experience in this kind of fighting...but now our armed forces are stronger and our soldiers understand better their duties and role," Saddam told the commanders of the elite Republican Guards, headed by his youngest son Qusay, on Monday, the Iraqi Army Day. "No army in the world has gained the experience in fighting an advanced army like the experience that we have gained from the circumstances that we went through in 1991 and what followed," Saddam was quoted as saying. The experience of getting your ass kicked was good for you? I guess you do have the best trained surrender troops in the world "It seems that what the enemy called the overthrow of the Taliban regime is enticing it to make an aggression against Iraq," Saddam told his officers. "Iraq is different from Afghanistan," Saddam said, adding that Iraq is a "rich, well-organized and stable country" that "produces oil and does not need to import it." Rich, well organized countries have a better set of targets "The Americans love to exaggerate and bully. They bring some soldiers to the desert and then take them away by planes to other places while the media show their images and movements...." Saddam said. That's right, we only have 100 guys in uniform who we keep moving around to make people think we have more. Just keep believing that, please. "They are hiding many goals...One of the goals is to open the chance for the (UN) inspectors to work beyond the announced goals of the (UN) Security Council," he said. "Although all the goals of UN Security Council are against Iraq, unjust and illegal, including Resolution 1441, yet spying on Iraq is not among the goals of these bad resolutions," Saddam said. "They are doing cheap intelligence work without paying direct and daily cost as they would have if they sent spies to do their work," the Iraqi president said. But, I thought they were spies? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 Okay, when the US was ready to fight in Afghanistan the Taliban said, this will not be another Iraq. It wasn't. Now Iraq is saying this will not be another Afghanistan. Well it won't, of course, it'll go down even quicker. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-01-09 10:10:38 |
| #2 I read one of Sammy's speeches once, full of flowery stuff about the "Iraqi knights" and how they'd kicked butt in the Mother of All Battles. He gave himself credit for being the one who suggested to the Mighty Republican Guard that they bury their T72s in the sand so the American Aggressors wouldn't see them, since they were bombing everything in sight. Since Sammy'd never been responsible for the care and feeding of combat vehicles, it seemed like a good idea to him. Since he was the dictator, and could have them shot, it seemed like a good idea to the RG commanders, too. Now, the T72 was really good avertising for any "buy American military equipment" campaign somebody wanted to come up with. The Abrams popped them almost casually. Perhaps they'd have made a better showing if they hadn't been buried in sand, waiting all that while to pounce, the meanwhile not being maintained, drying out, and getting sand in the gears. But I doubt it. |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-01-08 21:11:29 |
| #1 "Iraq is different from Afghanistan," Saddam said, adding that Iraq is a "rich, well-organized and stable country" that "produces oil and does not need to import it." Rich in that Saddam has all the wealth, well-organized in that Saddam and his sons run the show to their wishes, and stable in that his dictatorship has been around for many many years. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-01-08 16:54:25 |