Posted on 05/05/2009 1:15:54 PM PDT by milwguy
Immediately after U.S. troops captured Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq's brutal ex-dictator turned into a crybaby over "beatings" by a "detention gang" and sleepless nights amid screams of torture victims.
Saddam poured out his complaints "to whom it may concern" in two Christmas 2003 letters, handwritten in Arabic, which he gave to his U.S. military jailers, the Daily News has learned.
The letters were part of 352 pages of Hussein's declassified FBI file, requested and obtained by the News after the dictator's execution in Dec. 2006. The first letter came nine days after the ex-leader was imprisoned.
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It is not enough to release the names and techniques the CIA used with Al Qaeda. It is not enough to dump even more Abu Ghraib pictures on the public. How low do these scum have to stoop in their efforts to embarass our country? It is beyond disgusting...........
Here is how UPI describes the documents the Daily Mail requested. You decide when they finally got their hands on them. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
“The handwritten letters, given to his U.S. jailers, were among hundreds of documents found in Saddam’s declassified FBI file, which was requested by The New York Daily News after the former dictator’s December 2006 execution for crimes against humanity, the newspaper said.”
Guess Saddam’s people had tthe decency to cut the tongues out of his victims before they were tortured.
Wonder what Goering et al would have said about the U.S. captors? I think one of them was actually strangled to death by a guard after one too many Heil Hitlers.
Why do we give a rat’s rectum about this guy and his minions?
I said it before, Obama WANTS another attack on the U.S so he can use it for political ends. THAT is why he doing what he is doing.
Saddam’s digity was already stripped when he was published in a photo in the UK standing in prison in his underwear and when his execution was captured on a cellphone.
Then again, he marched political opponents into the next room one time and shot them.
This witch hunt is going to get us killed, either 0bama knows that and doesn't care, or he is too stupid to be President, either way it is gross dereliction of duty and he should be removed from office.
I want to know if Saddam was put through the plastic shredding machine, like some of his countrymen. Anything less than that, I don’t consider torture.
Goering made a fool out of Telford Taylor during his cross examination (which is probably why Taylor never got nominated to the Supreme Court) and ingratiated himself to his young U.S. MP lieutenant who supplied him with cyanide so he could cheat the hangman.
Saddam seems to be a similarly vindictive and clever sociopath, writing these letters in the hopes that they might one day embarrass the United States. He found an accomplice in another man named Hussein.
“Doesn’t he know he has already won the election.”
Ironically, he reminds us of that every time he faces any kind of opposition: “I won.”
True, but he didn’t get that memo. He thinks he’s king now, unfortunately. “Mandate for change!”
He will only become more embolden
Saddam poured out his complaints “to whom it may concern” in two Christmas 2003 letters,
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Oh, that’s nice. He recognised the Birth of Christ. Did he convert?
The media forgets that his sons had rape rooms they used to torture political prisoners. REAL torture.
NY POST.com: "'TORTURE' REGRETS CHEER OUR ENEMIES" by Adam Brodsky (SNIPPET: "Our new enemies require us to adopt new standards. But never for a moment should anyone think such changes compromise our moral standing. Self-flagellation and restraint won't make us more noble. But they might just make us more ... dead.") (Updated May 1, 2009, 4:33 am)
FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "THE BUSH 'TORTURE' LAWYERS: NO BETTER THAN TERRORISTS?" by Joseph Klein (SNIPPET: "Congress adopted this definition in a 1994 law criminalizing torture committed abroad. If Congress had wished to declare waterboarding or the other specific techniques used by the CIA to be included within the law criminalizing torture, they could have done so for the past seven years but did not. This is telling, considering Nancy Pelosi was briefed upon these techniques in detail. Like the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Torture, she is simply another in the long litany of government officials who seem to revel in their own tortuous reasoning, which invariably ends up protecting terrorists. They deserve to be ignored.") (May 5, 2009)
Experts.FOREIGN POLICY.com: "IRREPARABLE DAMAGE" by Thomas Hegghammer (SNIPPET: "Switch to the jihadi Internet forums, where thousands of radical Islamists log on every day to debate religion, politics, and the latest news from the war on terror. Last week there were debates on all kinds of topics, from swine flu to the financial crisis to the alleged capture of the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. But there was virtually nothing about the torture memos.") (May 4, 2009, 5:10 pm)
WEEKLY STANDARD.com: "PREENING & POSTURING Throwing those who guard us while we sleep to the wolves." by William Kristol (SNIPPET: "The dark and painful chapter we have to fear is rather the one President Obama may be ushering in. This would be a chapter in which politicians preen moralistically as they throw patriotic officials, who helped keep this country safe, to the wolves, and in which national leaders posture politically while endangering the nation's security. The preening is ridiculous, even by the standards of contemporary American politics and American liberalism. Obama fatuously asserts there are no real choices in the real world, just "false choices" that he can magically resolve. He foolishly suggests that even in war we would never have to do anything disagreeable for the sake of our security. He talks baby talk to intelligence officers: "Don't be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we've made some mistakes. That’s how we learn."") (May 4, 2009 Issue)
WEEKLY STANDARD.com - blog: "GOSS: OBAMA DECISION "CROSSED A RED LINE"" -Posted by Stephen F. Hayes (SNIPPET: "Porter Goss, former CIA Director and past chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, blasted the Obama administration for releasing Justice Department memos on harsh interrogation techniques. "For the first time in my experience we've crossed the red line of properly protecting our national security in order to gain partisan political advantage," Goss said in an interview.") (April 23, 2009, 1:53 pm)
CNN.com: Washington - "EX-CIA CHIEF: OBAMA RISKS NATIONAL SECURITY" (SNIPPET: "A former head of the CIA slammed President Obama on Sunday for releasing four Bush-era memos, saying the new president has compromised national security.") (Updated April 19, 2009, 7:44 p.m. EDT)
Online.WSJ.com: "THE PRESIDENT TIES HIS OWN HANDS ON TERROR The point of interrogation is intelligence, not confession." by Michael Hayden and Michael B. Mukasey (April 17, 2009)
CIA.gov: "MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: RELEASE OF DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OPINIONS Statement to Employees by Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Leon E. Panetta on the Release of Department of Justice Opinions" (April 16, 2009)
FOX NEWS.com: "EX-CIA CHIEF CRITICIZES RELEASE OF INTERROGATION MEMOS Former CIA Director Michael Hayden says release of the memos will give terrorists a precise guide for what to expect in a CIA interrogation if those methods are ever approved for use again" (April 16, 2009)
FOX NEWS.com: "OBAMA MAY RELEASE DETAILS OF CIA's INTERROGATION METHODS USED ON TERROR SUSPECTS" by Brit Hume (SNIPPET: "The president's decision will tell us much about him.") (April 15, 2009)
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