Look's like Iraq has already won over world opinion. Thank you world!!! 
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Feb. 16) - Iraq on Sunday gloated over the global outpouring of opposition to the U.S. threat of attack, saying anti-war demonstrations in dozens of countries signaled an Iraqi victory and ``the defeat and isolation of America.''
U.N. weapons inspectors, meanwhile, were back hunting for weapons of mass destruction Sunday, paying surprise visits to at least 10 suspect sites, including food factories, an air base in the northern city of Mosul and a science college.
Iraq's tightly controlled news media gave prominent coverage to anti-war demonstrations staged around the world on Saturday. Iraqi television showed footage of millions marching in the world's cities - under the logo ``International Day of Confronting the Aggression.''
``The world said with one voice: 'No to aggression on Iraq,''' read a headline in the government daily Al-Jumhuriya. ``The world rises against American aggression and the arrogance of naked force,'' read a front page headline in the army daily Al-Qadissiya.
``These demonstrations expressed in their spirit, meaning and slogans the decisive Iraqi victory and the defeat and isolation of America,'' Al-Jumhuriya said in a commentary.
The protests by millions worldwide started Friday in Australia. They continued through the weekend with a massive Sunday demonstration of more than 100,000 people in Sydney. The protests were the biggest in Australia since the Vietnam War three decades ago.
In a global outpouring of anti-war sentiment, Rome claimed the biggest turnout - 1 million according to police, while organizers claimed three times that figure.
In London, at least 750,000 people demonstrated in what police called the city's largest demonstration ever. In Spain, several million people turned out at anti-war rallies in about 55 cities and towns across the country, with more than 500,000 each attending rallies in Madrid and Barcelona.
In New York, rally organizers estimated the crowd at up to 500,000 people. City police provided no estimate of the crowd, which stretched 20 blocks deep and two blocks wide.
Iraq staged its own demonstrations on Saturday, when tens of thousands of people, many carrying assault rifles and portraits of Saddam Hussein, took to the streets of several Iraqi cities to pledge their loyalty to the Iraqi leader in the face of U.S. threats to attack the Arab nation.
The United States and Britain accuse Iraq of concealing weapons of mass destruction prohibited under U.N. resolutions adopted at the end of the 1991 Gulf War. They say they will disarm Iraq by force if necessary.
Saddam on Saturday reiterated that Iraq was free of weapons of mass destruction and said talk of deposing him was ``impertinent.''
``They talk about changing the Iraqi regime at a time when they also speak about respecting the will of nations and falsely boast about their so-called democracy,'' he told papal peace envoy Cardinal Roger Etchegaray on Saturday, official news media said.
In contrast to the international peace protests on Saturday, the mood of Iraq's demonstrations was defiant, echoing the official Iraqi rhetoric of the past several months: Iraq wants peace but it is also ready for war, should one start.
``On our land, thank God, we have enough resolve, determination and faith, and enough men and supplies, to fight for 10 years,'' Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said in Cairo on Saturday.
U.N. investigators on Sunday also inspected an army unit some 25 miles north of Baghdad. Reporters who followed the inspectors to the site saw the arms experts examining two Al Samoud missiles, one of two types that chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix said had been tested to ranges exceeding the 94-mile limit set by the U.N. Security Council.
Hiro Ueki, the spokesman for the inspectors in Baghdad, could not immediately comment on Sunday's inspection but said the U.N. missiles experts were checking Al Samoud missiles against Iraq's declaration.
The inspectors returned to Iraq in November after a four-year break to search for evidence of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons or programs to manufacture them. They have so far not found any major evidence of their existence, although Blix told the Security Council on Friday that some weapon agents remained ``unaccounted for.''
Not that I really care, I say F*** the world!! Nobody wants war.........But Saddam Insain's time has come. No more BULL****.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Feb. 16) - Iraq on Sunday gloated over the global outpouring of opposition to the U.S. threat of attack, saying anti-war demonstrations in dozens of countries signaled an Iraqi victory and ``the defeat and isolation of America.''
U.N. weapons inspectors, meanwhile, were back hunting for weapons of mass destruction Sunday, paying surprise visits to at least 10 suspect sites, including food factories, an air base in the northern city of Mosul and a science college.
Iraq's tightly controlled news media gave prominent coverage to anti-war demonstrations staged around the world on Saturday. Iraqi television showed footage of millions marching in the world's cities - under the logo ``International Day of Confronting the Aggression.''
``The world said with one voice: 'No to aggression on Iraq,''' read a headline in the government daily Al-Jumhuriya. ``The world rises against American aggression and the arrogance of naked force,'' read a front page headline in the army daily Al-Qadissiya.
``These demonstrations expressed in their spirit, meaning and slogans the decisive Iraqi victory and the defeat and isolation of America,'' Al-Jumhuriya said in a commentary.
The protests by millions worldwide started Friday in Australia. They continued through the weekend with a massive Sunday demonstration of more than 100,000 people in Sydney. The protests were the biggest in Australia since the Vietnam War three decades ago.
In a global outpouring of anti-war sentiment, Rome claimed the biggest turnout - 1 million according to police, while organizers claimed three times that figure.
In London, at least 750,000 people demonstrated in what police called the city's largest demonstration ever. In Spain, several million people turned out at anti-war rallies in about 55 cities and towns across the country, with more than 500,000 each attending rallies in Madrid and Barcelona.
In New York, rally organizers estimated the crowd at up to 500,000 people. City police provided no estimate of the crowd, which stretched 20 blocks deep and two blocks wide.
Iraq staged its own demonstrations on Saturday, when tens of thousands of people, many carrying assault rifles and portraits of Saddam Hussein, took to the streets of several Iraqi cities to pledge their loyalty to the Iraqi leader in the face of U.S. threats to attack the Arab nation.
The United States and Britain accuse Iraq of concealing weapons of mass destruction prohibited under U.N. resolutions adopted at the end of the 1991 Gulf War. They say they will disarm Iraq by force if necessary.
Saddam on Saturday reiterated that Iraq was free of weapons of mass destruction and said talk of deposing him was ``impertinent.''
``They talk about changing the Iraqi regime at a time when they also speak about respecting the will of nations and falsely boast about their so-called democracy,'' he told papal peace envoy Cardinal Roger Etchegaray on Saturday, official news media said.
In contrast to the international peace protests on Saturday, the mood of Iraq's demonstrations was defiant, echoing the official Iraqi rhetoric of the past several months: Iraq wants peace but it is also ready for war, should one start.
``On our land, thank God, we have enough resolve, determination and faith, and enough men and supplies, to fight for 10 years,'' Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said in Cairo on Saturday.
U.N. investigators on Sunday also inspected an army unit some 25 miles north of Baghdad. Reporters who followed the inspectors to the site saw the arms experts examining two Al Samoud missiles, one of two types that chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix said had been tested to ranges exceeding the 94-mile limit set by the U.N. Security Council.
Hiro Ueki, the spokesman for the inspectors in Baghdad, could not immediately comment on Sunday's inspection but said the U.N. missiles experts were checking Al Samoud missiles against Iraq's declaration.
The inspectors returned to Iraq in November after a four-year break to search for evidence of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons or programs to manufacture them. They have so far not found any major evidence of their existence, although Blix told the Security Council on Friday that some weapon agents remained ``unaccounted for.''
Not that I really care, I say F*** the world!! Nobody wants war.........But Saddam Insain's time has come. No more BULL****.
