Saddam aims to inflict heavy casualties to break morale of US

A DECADE after the “mother of all battles” that never came, Saddam Hussein’s regime says American soldiers who dare to invade will face “rivers of blood” and “disgraceful failure.”

Now that a new UN Security Council resolution to strip Iraq of illicit weapons is in place, the clock is ticking for a US led war that could make Saddam live up to or eat his words.

While Saddam still has a large army at his disposal, Arab military leaders who have seen that army in action believe he will be forced to fight with a more limited force trying to draw US troops into urban warfare in Baghdad and hitting them with chemical or biological weapons wherever he can.