Sunday, March 23, 2003 |
01:25 - Did someone set up us Saddam?
http://www.blogsofwar.com/archives/week_2003_03_23.html#000695
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John Little at Blogs of War doesn't think much of the Saddam video just aired.
I can't believe I stayed up for the "historic speech from Saddam". It looked like another file piece. There was no way to put a date on it. It was intorduced by the Minister of Information who I increasingly suspect of running the country since he is the only official we really hear from. I want the last hour of my life back.
I don't know if there'll be much more info on this tonight (CNN and FoxNews both seem to have little more than a headline on the matter), but I'd like to hear whether it's true that the Minister of Information merely introduced the video rather than passing the microphone to Saddam in person, and whether the video in fact contained anything temporaneous.
If Little's brief analysis is correct, I'm actually weirdly encouraged in a way-- because it means the Iraqi power structure, such as it is, is living up to its well-earned and sterling reputation of honesty and kept promises. Up till now I was wondering, "So what about all that Stalin-class propaganda? C'mon, let's see some real world-class lying of the out-the-ass variety. Let's see some bluster and posturing and some verbal missiles fired at right angles to reality."
Well, it looks like that's all back in operation. To say nothing of good old-fashioned torture and slaughter of POWs, which I expect will absolutely scandalize that Human Rights Watch guy who was on the BBC last night. Or not.
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