From: Gene McAloon 

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:03:34 -0600, David N. Barnett  wrote:

>On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:13:10 -0500, "Mark Hessey"
> wrote in message :
>
>| Saddam speaks english, how fluent I'm not sure (although each time he heard
>| footsteps overhead in previous raids he probably memorized those lines over
>| and over), but he was surely feigning total ignorance when Dan Rather
>| trotted on over for his exclusive interview before the war :-)
>
>Before he became the leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin used to speak
>English pretty well too.

Yes, he did. It gives you some idea of the standing in the world of the US under
Bush when foreign leaders refuse to use English for domestic political reasons.

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