Re: to bush from saddam

go and polish your jackboots, Heinnie


"Heinrich X" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Letter From Tikrit
>
>
>
> Memo to: President Bush
>
> From: Saddam Hussein
>
> Dear Bush: Well, it's been a while since we last communicated. It's not
easy
> getting tapes out from this ****ment in Tikrit, but I thought it was time
we
> had a little chat. Heard your speech on Arab democracy on the BBC Arabic
> Service. I'll give you this, Bush, you and Blair do understand the stakes.
> It's your willpower I doubt.
>
> You see, Bush, this really is "The Mother of All Battles." You may not
have
> meant to, but you have triggered a huge civilizational war - the war
within
> Islam. Who wins in Iraq will have a big impact on this war - which is now
> spreading to Indonesia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
>
> By now you've realized that I was prepared for this war. I got rid of all
my
> W.M.D., hid explosives and set up an underground network to fight you once
> you were in country. But God bless the Turkish Parliament. By not allowing
> you to use Turkey to invade from the north, my boys in the Sunni Triangle
> were spared. By the time you got here from the south, we just receded into
> the shadows. You occupied our Sunni towns, but never defeated them. Had
you
> been able to sweep down from the north, my boys would have had to engage
> you, and you would have killed them wholesale by the hundreds. Now you
have
> to kill them retail - one by one.
>
> We're not fanatics. We're I.B.M. We have a business plan and we're
executing
> it: We started by eliminating the U.N., the Red Cross and attacking oil
> pipelines. Then we moved against the countries that have sent troops or
> might - Italy, Jordan and Turkey. And now we're killing all Iraqis who
> collaborate with you - police, army, judges, technocrats. We know who
> everyone is and where they live. We're "a learning enemy." When you adapt
to
> us, we re-adapt to you. Yes, we're secular Baathists, but we've made
contact
> with Islamic militants from Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Syria, and they drive
> our suicide vans. So many volunteers, so many good targets.
>
> What we all believe is that if we can defeat you here, American cultural,
> political and economic influence in this part of the world will be
finished
> for a long time.
>
> So far, I feel pretty good. As isolated as I am in my bunker, I know that
my
> view of this war - which is that you Americans have come here to put the
> Arabs down and steal our oil - still dominates Arab public opinion. I am
> bolstered by the fact that ill-qualified, intolerant Arab religious
> educators, spiritual leaders and "intellectuals" - who have long dominated
> our schools and mosques because tyrants like me found them useful - still
> feed this view to our youth. They think the only reason we are backward is
> because you put us down.
>
> As long as the Arab street is locked in this view, I win. Because it means
> the people would rather have a cruel Arab leader like me or bin Laden -
who
> momentarily lifts their pride by sticking a finger in your eye - than
> looking in the mirror and admitting that our society, religious leaders
and
> culture have failed to prepare our people to succeed at modernity.
>
> Changing all this is what this war of ideas is all about, and I am so
> pleased you are so bad at it. As long as you let one of your top generals
> and your pals on the Christian right spew hate against the Prophet
Muhammad,
> you only strengthen the will of my young people against you. And your
> "moderate" Arab allies are good at the police tactics to repress our
angry,
> humiliated youth, but they have no serious strategy to give them new jobs,
> new ideas and new beliefs.
>
> Yes, Bush, you and Blair have kicked off something very big - a war of
ideas
> with, and within, Islam. It's as big as the cold war. But to win, you have
> to mobilize your whole society, as you did in the cold war. You are
talking
> about trying to change a whole civilization, whose backward, fanatical
> elements - when combined with modern technology - now threaten you.
>
> Yet your Pentagon only talks about pulling troops out of Iraq, when you
> should be putting more in. What are you thinking? You should have brought
> every soldier you have in Europe and Japan right here. The whole game
comes
> down to security. We are in a race to see who gets to the tipping point
> first. Iraqis will follow the strong horse. My bet is that I can generate
> enough insecurity among Iraqis to shun you, before you can induce them to
> carry out your program to build a democratic alternative to me.
>
> I still think I can win, because I prepped my **** for the Mother of All
> Battles, and you prepared yours for Mother Goose - a short war, with few
> troops, few funerals and no sacrifices for average Americans. Sorry pal,
but
> that's no way to win The Big One
>
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