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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dealer who wrote (9008)	4/7/2003 3:33:30 AM
From: XBrit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Meanwhile, reality continues to bite... "The latest developments [Monday 4/7/03] gave the impression of a regime entering its death throes, tipping on the verge of collapse. [American military] intelligence reports said a number of high-level officials from Hussein's Baath Party were trying to flee Baghdad. The reports said Hussein's ability to control the city was slipping and predicted that the fall of his government was imminent. "Regime collapse is a matter of days, not weeks," one report concluded. An Iraqi state television announcer read a statement in Hussein's name Sunday that itself indicated disarray in Iraq's military. "From President Saddam Hussein, in the name of God the merciful, to all members of the armed forces, peace be upon you," the statement said. "If it is not possible for any fighter to join his unit for whatever reason, let him join a unit of the same kind that he is able to join." One Iraqi government functionary said that he and many of his colleagues were likely to vanish before U.S. troops entered the center of Baghdad. "People are very scared," he said. "They feel that this will be over soon, maybe in three or four days." latimes.com