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Joerg Haider: "US may have arrested Saddam's double" ["capture is a scam"; Israel is a dictatorship]
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting News Network ^ | 2003/12/17

Posted on 12/17/2003 4:10:52 AM PST by yonif

Vienna, Dec 17 - US troops may have arrested a double of Saddam Hussein and DNA testing does not prove conclusively that they have captured the Iraqi dictator, Austrian Freedom Party ex-leader Joerg Haider said late Tuesday.

Calling the capture "slapstick" and a "real scam", Haider told national ORF television: "This may be one of his many doubles."

"The saliva tests they did mean nothing if they did not have earlier specimens to which they could compare it," the former leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party added.

Haider visited Saddam in Baghdad in February 2002 and caused a stir on eve of the Iraq war when he said he was prepared to offer the Iraqi leader shelter.

On Tuesday he said he felt that morally there was little difference between Saddam and US President George W. Bush.

"I would be hard-pressed to choose between the two. Both have acted at odds with international law, committed human rights abuses. The one has the good luck to lead a superpower ... while the other was just a poor dictator.

Haider also said that Saddam was not the worst dictator in the world, or in the Middle East.

"In comparison with other dictators from China, and to Israel I have to say, it is difficult for me to see what the differences is."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: austria; freedomparty; haider; iraq; neonazi; rumor; waronterrorism
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To: yonif
Suffering cats!

I think contrary mother-kerrys like haider do and say crap like this not because they actually believe it, but just to irritate others.

41 posted on 12/17/2003 6:57:47 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: yonif
Where's the Barf Alert?
42 posted on 12/17/2003 7:25:17 AM PST by night reader
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To: yonif
"The saliva tests they did mean nothing if they did not have earlier specimens to which they could compare it," the former leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party added.

I guess Herr Haider thinks we just buried Saddam's sons without getting samples from them for comparison.

43 posted on 12/17/2003 8:09:52 AM PST by texasbluebell
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
"I would be hard-pressed to choose between the two."

Don't bother. Move to N. Korea.
44 posted on 12/17/2003 8:22:16 AM PST by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert
LOL

I wonder what N.Korea's immigration stats are, as of late?
45 posted on 12/17/2003 8:23:55 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife ("Your joy is your sorrow unmasked." --- GIBRAN)
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To: night reader
Where's the Barf Alert?

No room in the title :)

46 posted on 12/17/2003 8:26:06 AM PST by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
They're dying to get out, but they're not dying to get in.
47 posted on 12/17/2003 8:33:29 AM PST by nuconvert
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To: yonif
I would be hard-pressed to choose between the two. Both have acted at odds with international law, committed human rights abuses.

Well, I can think of a couple of easy ways - one of them started a million-casualty war with his next-door neighbor, poison-gassed his own population, and ran a vicious, murderous police state, and the other did not; more to the point, one of them was dragged, cowering, out of a dirty hole and the other was not. Anyone who can't see the difference is trying his best not to.

48 posted on 12/17/2003 8:35:42 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: yonif
And to think that I thought Haider was a breath of fresh air when he first came on the scene, boy was I wrong.
49 posted on 12/17/2003 8:36:21 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
I keep hearing this crap about violating international law. What law have we signed on to that we violated? The "EU Doesn't like Bush, so what he does is illegal" law?

Please help me out here, so I can combat this venom they keep spitting out.
50 posted on 12/17/2003 9:54:28 AM PST by spacewarp (Visit the American Patriot Party and stay a while. http://www.patriotparty.us)
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To: dighton; section9; general_re
All beer hall, no Putsch.

Strong entry for One-Liner of the Day.

Bingo.

51 posted on 12/17/2003 9:55:29 AM PST by aculeus
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To: spacewarp
I keep hearing this crap about violating international law. What law have we signed on to that we violated?

None.

52 posted on 12/17/2003 10:54:31 AM PST by 4CJ (Come along chihuahua, I want to hear you say yo quiero taco bell. - Nolu Chan, 28 Jul 2003)
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