# stuyguy's Saddam speech theory proved correct!

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**Created:** [April 25, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuyguys-saddam-speech-theory-proved-correct/171036 "2003-04-25T03:43:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuyguys-saddam-speech-theory-proved-correct/171036/1 "2003-04-25T03:43:08Z")

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Early in the Iraq war I posted a [theory](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=171545&highlight=theory) about Saddam’s “Old Lady Glasses Speech.”

I said that the reason it was performed from a notepad, in a sloppy setting and with Saddam wearing (ugly) glasses was because it was, in fact, a previously-taped _rehearsal_. Many Dopers, I’m happy to say, thought my theory was a good one.

Well, you did not back a loser, friends! Tonight on Charlie Rose, one of his guests, a Pentagon corresepondent, told Charlie – with sly “now it all makes sense” inflection – that we now know that the OLGS was, as I predicted, a taped rehearsal.

Sweet.

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**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuyguys-saddam-speech-theory-proved-correct/171036/2 "2003-04-25T03:56:46Z")

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You da man!

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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuyguys-saddam-speech-theory-proved-correct/171036/3 "2003-04-25T04:43:32Z")

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I bow before your psychic abilites.

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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuyguys-saddam-speech-theory-proved-correct/171036/4 "2003-04-25T06:48:27Z")

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I heard the same supposition on CNN International the morning after the speech.

Haj

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**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuyguys-saddam-speech-theory-proved-correct/171036/5 "2003-04-25T13:42:22Z")

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Haj – Well, now you know where _they_ got the idea, don’t you? [Grinny]

voguey – “Da man,” yes. Or, as I prefer, “da guy.”