USING THE LORD'S NAME IN VAIN

A new audiotape attributed to Saddam Hussein and broadcast Tuesday on Arab satellite station Al-Arabiya acknowledges the death of the ousted dictator's two sons last week.

The tape - the third attributed to Saddam this month - begins with a verse from the Quran. The speaker says Odai and Qusai, killed in a gunfight with U.S. forces in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul, would be martyrs in heaven.

"Thank God for what he destined for us, and honored us with their martyrdom for his sake,'' the speaker said in the broadcast, which was monitored in Cairo.

Disgusting.

I admit I haven't read the Q'uran lately, but if the heaven it proposes includes those two, well count me out.