Saddam's Osama Routine

The Age reporter Ed O'Loughlin obtains an audiocassette said to be from Saddam Hussein, plays it for everybody and his uncle in Baghdad, and concludes with a definite maybe.

Audiotapes from an undisclosed location? Authentication questions? A "weak"-sounding voice indicating injuries or sickness? I'm beginning to think that fabled 40 percent of the American public is right—Saddam and Osama really are the same person. Transcript here.

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[Chris Howell]

Well, have you ever seen Osama and Saddam in the same photograph?

[Hal E. Burton]

Haven't you been paying attention to the White House? Saddam and Osama are both dead.

[parallel]

Hadn't you heard?

Now it has been three weeks since the end of the war, and Saddam Hussein has not been found, so it is becoming obvious that he never existed and was merely a fiction dreamt up by the neo-cons in order to invade Iraq.