I presume the rhetoric and propaganda is for the consumption of those beyond sight and sound of Baghdad. My take is that Saddam and Sons are out of the picture one way or another and what we are seeing are the Baath Party 2nd and 3rd stringers hoping on hope that some sort of cease fire and negotiations can begin. Of course that would leave them in a power position and that would make that porky pig in a beret looking guy really smile. So I would say look for a lot more of this and equally desperate measures. All those ?almost powerful? people aren?t going to let go until their hands are literally blown off the throttle and it will probably take a Marine or 3rd I.D. Troop to get it done, in my opinion.
About all those wannabe dictators have left is stoking the fears of a continuing regime of terror and the proposition that this will force fanatical fighting and a loss of Coalition resolve. In fits and starts, the battle to convince the Iraqi people that the Saddam threat is really gone will gain momentum and the grand pronouncements from Baghdad will become the comic opera they really are, eventually. However, this will take a bit as we hung them out to twist slowly in the wind before and memories are long while words are cheep.
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