Saddam Hussein has never been short of colourful rhetoric. It was he who popularized the phrase "the mother of all battles" back in 1991. Since then whenever journalists run out of superlatives to describe anything, they will say "this is the mother of all .......". Now Saddam has appeared on TV after the initial wave of bombing from US at the crack of dawn in Baghdad with a new set of rhetoric, asking Iraqi to "draw your swords" against the "infidels".

No wonder Reality TV draws the viewers.