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Saddam-isms: A quote round-up |
2003-12-15 |
No direct link to any one article--just a collection of the quotes related to yesterdayâs events that amuse the hell out of me. You know how I get when Iâm not medicated. Or Iâm heavily medicated... I forget."Why didnât you fight?" one Governing Council member asked Hussein as their meeting ended. Hussein gestured toward the U.S. soldiers guarding him and asked his own question: "Would you fight them?" When the soldiers first found Saddam, he raised his hands above his head, military officials said. "I am Saddam Hussein," he said, according to the officials. "I am the president of Iraq and I want to negotiate." The U.S. soldiers reportedly responded: "President Bush sends his regards." SNOW: Can Iraq be fully secure as long as he is unaccounted for? When asked âHow are you?â said the official, Saddam responded, âI am sad because my people are in bondage.â When offered a glass of water by his interrogators, Saddam replied, âIf I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage?â [Iraqi Governing Council member] Mr. Rubaie said: "One thing which is very important is that this man had with him underground when they arrested him two AK-47âs and did not shoot one bullet. I told him, `You keep on saying that you are a brave man and a proud Arab.â I said, `When they arrested you why didnât you shoot one bullet? You are a coward.â And he started to use very colorful language. Basically, he used all his French." "Itâs a black day in history," said Sadiq Husam, 33, a taxi driver in Ramallah, West Bank seat of the Palestinian Authority. "I am saying so not because Saddam is an Arab, but because he is the only man who said no to American injustice in the Middle East," he said. |
Posted by:Dar |
#6 Sounds like someone doesn't quite have a grasp on what is going on around him. Wonder if he's going to use the same strategy that Mafia capo did? Don't think he'd survive long wandering around Baghdad in a bathrobe tho... |
Posted by: Pappy 2003-12-15 2:18:39 PM |
#5 Where were these "experts" then? Calling for the end of sanctions. |
Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-12-15 1:27:23 PM |
#4 I am really amazed by the number of âLegal Expertsâ around the world. They are preoccupied that Saddam gets a âfairâ trial. Hah. There were 300,000 others that didn't get a fair trial. Where were these "experts" then? |
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-15 1:21:27 PM |
#3 I am really amazed by the number of âLegal Expertsâ around the world. They are preoccupied that Saddam gets a âfairâ trial. Most of these legal eagles think that the world court or the u.n. should conduct the trial. I say to them: âHold your breath until that happens!â |
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-12-15 1:00:03 PM |
#2 I am the president of Iraq and I want to negotiate. Sounds like someone doesn't quite have a grasp on what is going on around him. Maybe he needs to be in the Old Tyrant's Home where his Depends⢠can be changed regularly. That is, until we can loan Old Sparky to the Iraqis for the execution. |
Posted by: 4thInfVet 2003-12-15 11:50:57 AM |
#1 A few more, and I'll stop:[Saddam's] trial will begin "very soon, in the next few weeks," Mouwafak al-Rabii, a Shiite Muslim council member, told The Associated Press. "We will get [Iraqi national] sovereignty on the 30th of June, and I can tell you, he could be executed on the 1st of July," said al-Rabii, a longtime human rights activist. Well, tha[sic] capture of Sadaam takes the âfailure to captureâ issue off the table. Now that the economy is picking up (mall was packed yesterday), Iraq is getting better, prescription drugs on the way, education spending at an all-time high, no further terrorist attacksâwhat is left? Oh, yes, the capture of Bin Laden. Soldiers searched the hut, made up of two rooms â a bedroom and a kitchen. No one else was found. The soldier who participated in the raid described it as "just two rooms and a sink, there was one bed and one chair and some clothes and that's about it." Soldiers seized two rifles, a pistol, a taxi and $750,000 in U.S. currency in a suitcase. They also found new clothes in unopened wrappers, which Odierno suggested meant Saddam had not been there long. I guess with his boys |
Posted by: Dar 2003-12-15 10:41:36 AM |