Gangsta Rap Saddam!

After a brief burst of Arabic to say “I say I have a big heart and I say goodbye to you”, he delivers the final refrain based on the words “Saddam in the house. Everybody in the house say we hate you” in English.

The backing group responds with “We hate you”, repeated several times.

Radio Tikrit has been part of the anti-Saddam psychological operation – or “psyops” – since mid-February.

My dad brought back a tape of the morale boosting music that they played for the troops back in 1991. That was hilarious. It seems as if this is just an extension of the same tactic.