Saddam thinks he may run Iraq again

Saddam believes U.S. may reinstate him as president

RAW STORY

Published:
Saturday June 24, 2006

Saddam Hussein believes that President Bush may reinstate him as president some day, according to a story slated for Sunday's New York Times, RAW STORY has found.

"Saddam Hussein has no illusions, his chief lawyer says," writes Edward Wong. "As he sits in his prison cell reading the Quran and writing poetry, he knows the inevitable is coming -- a death sentence handed down by the Iraqi court trying him for crimes against humanity."

"Yet Saddam refuses to submit to the fate that awaits him, Khalil al-Dulaimi, said, for he believes there is a way out," the article continues. "President Bush will use the court's sentence as leverage to try to persuade Saddam to tamp down the insurgency, he said, so desperate are the Americans to stanch their losses."

"Saddam believes the Americans might even reinstall him as president of Iraq," Wong writes.

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