SOmetimes ya gotta wonder which century some people are living in. The following exhoretation was reported in the NY Times as having been offered by Saddam to his people concerning the prospect of war:

``We are confident ... that you will be with every dawn for a new day, better and better until you attain the best state ... to the disappointment of your desperate enemies, the friends and wicked assistants of Satan, the inhabitants of night and the dark,'' Saddam said. ``Their arrows will go astray while your arrows will hit them.''


Now, surely he knows his public, and he has demonstrated an energetic sense of public relations. Is he using this Old Testament style in order to sound like an ancient prophet? Or does he think the people hearing him will understand his reference to "arrows going astray" better than they would understand "the migration of NBC contaminants" or "cruise missiles with real time navigation capabilities".?

If I were a citizen of Saddam's Iraq I would not be comforted at the thought of using arrows, is all I can say! :>)

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