BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 Kyodo President ...

BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 Kyodo

President Saddam Hussein warned the United States forward Wednesday that if it attacked Iraq it would tolerate considerable losses and said if ''evil persists in the heads of the Americans, we will break their necks''

The president was speaking to a dispose of senior army commanders. His words of about one hour, aired by dint of official Iraqi TV networks, came a day after U President George W Bush delivered his State of the Union address conveying Bush's determination to attack Iraq militarily if necessary to disarm the home of weapons of mass destruction.

''Iraqis have prepared what they can (for confrontation),'' a defiant Saddam said. ''Addressing the Americans in this manner does not mean that we are afraid of evil however want to evade him and continue him away.''

Citing the U building up a military port in the Middle East and conducting ''propaganda campaigns'' aimed at Iraqis, Saddam said, ''Iraq has calculated all this and has included it in its (military) exercises in detail, including to what extent the population would stand in front of them.''

Saddam said past experiences of war have fortified his partys accusing the U.S. of being ''deluded.''

He then said Iraq fighting back would outcome in the U.S. and the world suffering economic harm.

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