Saddam was concerned about internal unrest amongst the tribes before, during or after an attack by the US on Baghdad.

I would like to reconfirm what we have said before … that U.S. and British efforts to impose a new unfair resolution will never succeed,

An attack on Iraq will not be an American picnic. Instead, it will be a fierce fight where Americans will suffer losses that have not been seen for decades.

either creating a superficial pretext to justify the American aggression or he is trying to confuse and undermine the comprehensive review.

They are telling wrongly the American public opinion and the world that Iraq is reproducing weapons of mass destruction, … That’s not true.

Iraq does not have weapons of mass destruction,

Since this is the wish of the American administration to perpetuate, to prolong the current situation to keep the sanctions … you are serving the American policy,

A few weeks before the attacks Saddam still thought the U.S. would not use ground forces. He thought they would not fight a ground war because it would be too costly to the Americans.