I also think he believes that he will win. And I am more than certian he does not care how many people die because of it. He does not have his country's intrest in mind.
He will practice scorthed earth policy just as he has in the past. It makes no difference that Iraq's future will suffer because of it. Oil wells will burn, factories destroyed, anything of value will be plundered by him.
I have also heard that he has already begun arresting Kurds (with suspicions that they are being executed). This is a blantent atempt to remove any movement to establish a different type of rule after this is over.
Also, on a TV report, they were interviewing a man from Iraq who is now a US citizen. As all males must serve in the military over there, he did as well. He said that Saddam places his elite guards in the back lines of an army with orders to shoot any Iraqi soldier that retreats, surrenders, or does not fight.
He is taking his country down. It is sad.