I think it was taped !
 

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What kind of dictator would wear THOSE glasses for any speach he really cared about?

Sure would be interesting to know if and who they nailed with the first air strikes...

Seriously.......

Look at that picture of Saddam. Is he really as mad as we think??? Mad about Lenscrafters maybe!

Looks like Harry Carry during Halloween.

....and yes, it was obviously taped.

944S Boyeee

One of his look-alikes? "YOU IDIOT! You were to take the glasses off BEFORE the camera was turned on!"

Mad about Lenscrafters!!! LOL!

Holy Cow!

Reminds me of "Fearless Leader" from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show.

heh heh
To me, he looks like he's ready to enter stage right in a swing dancing Gap commercial.

Or

a date for

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I wonder if Saddam (or whomever that is) said to himself....

"I'm going to be on TV alllll over the world - I HAVE to pull out the big glasses - I just have to!!"

Maybe those glasses are the weapons of mass destruction they were looking for??? I'm sure you could melt an entire nation if the sun shines through those monsters just right!

944S Boyeee

oops. . .my mistake. Carrie Donovan did the Old Navy commercials.

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he in all probability has made many tapes for these circumstances, to show he is still in power and command. there is no way to know just by the tape if it was made days or weeks before or after the target of opportunity strike. but it was surely him on tape.

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You guys know Saddam's a big romance novel fan. He reads them voraciously; has also written a few. Didn't see any of his work on Amazon.com, however. :(

If we hit Saddam; It begs the question; Who is keeping up the illusion, and why?

I was not certain that was really him either. The glasses, the hat, the color of the moustache, & possibly maybe too many chin / neck wrinkles. :) But what do I know...I have hardly ever really looked at him anyway. ;)

Gov't analysis says the tape was of Sadam. They're also saying he was injured in the initial strike; speculation that he was carried out on a stretcher.

His two sons were in the bunker, too, though they aren't sure which two sons and if they're alive.

Fox news . . . Saddams speach --67 edits were made.

Saddam -- You are the weakest link -- goodbye.

Charles Nelson Riley anyone?...

Does anyone expect that Saddam is still alive?

When the google-eyed glasses speech broke, I though; he's gone!

BTW, from the Washington Post:
"Saddam's personal bodyguard was seen at a weekend press conference standing behind Iraqi Defense Minister Sultan Hashem Ahmed. Intelligence officials believe the bodyguard provided security only to the dictator.

So does this mean Defense Minister Hashem Ahmed is calling all the shot's?

Anyone dare to speculate?

Does anyone expect Peter Arnett and Geraldo Rivera are still alive?

Arnett and Geraldo need to come back and go do some interviews at Paris Island.
See how long they last then.

Re: I think it was taped !
 

So, the story is developing, that the reason WMD’s were NOT used (and why Baghdad fell so quickly) is because, in the first opening-night strike against Saddam, got him.
What’s being said is the goggled-eyed Saddam speech was a taped rehearsal; as the official copy hadn’t been made.

So how 'bout it you conspiracy theorists. . .did Saddam actually escape with the help of the Russians? .. .did the US nail him early, but decide to pretend he was still alive; just so the US could look for his oil?:rolleyes:

I'm standing by my original gut feeling on this. . . No self-repecting, mass-killing dictator would wear THOSE glasses for any speech he really cared about?

Island - the eyeglasses were also explained. The film of him reading a speech while bespeckled was supposedly a trial run of a speech that he later gave, though this speech still pre-dates that Sidewinder/Cruise missile strike.

The reason it was shown to the Iraqi people was because they'd never seen it before.

My theory: no one was sure the Sidewinder/Cruise missile strike killed Sadam, which is why they bombed the restaurant a couple weeks later when the U.S. heard he was still alive.

One or the other probably did the man in.

A rattled Sadam coulda made that bespectacled speech..... My guess is he survived the first nights strike.....resistance was still stiff afterwards.

The second strike either got him or he got away under the cover of his being dead.....maybe to Russia? Cause resistance was almost noexistant after the 2nd strike on the restruant.

A regime like Sadams is only effective...will hold together so long as he is alive or there to direct it.....otherwise it falls apart because no one except him can instill the fear or inspiration to hold it together. Look what happened to the 3rd Reich after A. Hitler committed suicide (decent example of a similar situation + or -).

So Iraq's security chief calls a meeting of Saddam's body doubles.
"Gentlemen, I have some good news and bad news.
The good news is, our Esteemed Leader survived the bombing attack on the palace, and is alive and well!
The bad news is, he's lost an arm..."

"...one nut, and an eye."

:D

Blue - are you talking about the second bombing?

Because that was just pure nasty. Six - what - 2,500 lb bombs being thrown down 20 feet from each other leaving a crater that looked 30-feet deep?

The CNN report was maybe they could get DNA results if there was any bit of "smudge scraped up from the scene."

I say again: nasty!

The art of war..dd74