Posted on 06/24/2004 7:43:03 PM PDT by Flavius
Saddam complains about treatment From AP June 25, 2004 BAGHDAD: Saddam Hussein was being treated with "dignity and respect", the US said yesterday as cable news network CNN broadcast images of a heavily censored letter said to be from the captured Iraqi dictator to his family.
"Saddam Hussein is being treated in accordance with the Geneva Conventions," US military spokesman Brigadier-General Mark Kimmitt said.
"He is being treated with dignity and respect by the coalition forces and we will continue to do so." He said the respectful treatment of Saddam was "ironic" because "this is a man who is responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of his own countrymen".
The International Red Cross, however, is pressing US authorities to release three letters Saddam has sent to his family, as is permitted by the Geneva Conventions.
ICRC spokeswoman Nada Doumani said "there has been a lot of delay" in releasing the letters.
"We have repeatedly raised the issue with the detaining authority and urged it to speed up the process." One of Saddam's daughters, Raghad Saddam Hussein, told an Arab women's magazine earlier this month that the Red Cross had delivered one letter from her father, who has been held by US forces since his December 13 capture.
She said three lines of a six-line letter were deleted by censors. CNN yesterday broadcast images of a letter reportedly written by Saddam to one of his daughters in which he said his morale was high.
"My spirit and my morale, they are high, thanks to greatness of God," the letter said, before continuing: "And say hello to everyone."
But two-thirds of the letter was blacked out. Brigadier-General Kimmitt said despite proper treatment in confinement, Saddam "has the gall to be complaining". "We don't have him in one of his palaces," he said.
"We don't have him in one of his luxurious apartments that he used the oil money of the people of Iraq to buy. He's being treated like any other security detainee according to the Geneva Conventions."
AP
This is priceless. Truly priceless. They should give him some picutres of the people he slaughtered and the remains of the people his sons fed to lions. That ought to cheer him right up!
??? Why did they say this? All they had to say they were abiding by the geneva convention. But to explicitly state that they are treating him with dignity and respect is an outrage.
After that hell hole he was hiding in he should be grateful for clean drawers and a decent meal. I say let's try him while the Iraqi's are still angry.
to Saddam I'd say: "STUFF IT!!"
Someone ought to break all his fingers and then ask if he has any other complaints.
Put a wood chipper in his cell and run it about 5 minutes every hour.
That should shut him up.
I wonder what he would think of five hooded men in sheets (like the KKK) stood behind him while reading a proclamation to a camera. One of them has a big dagger in a sheath.
off with his head!
Saddam should be made to "get friendly" with a broom handle and, every time he complains about the "proximity" of the broom, a tooth should be yanked from his skull. All of this, of course, should be filmed - with the film then being sent to any living relatives of his for viewing.
To Saddam I say: You can stay at my place ANY time you like. You'll check in, AND YOU WILL NOT CHECK OUT.
Oh, what an atrocity!
Well how about we just settle for a 50, 000 dollar fine and some community service? Then we'll release him on his own accord with a promise that he'll "straighten up and fly right" in the future.
//sarcasm off//
Maybe we actually could have done a little more to make ole Hussein feel at home.
Like cut off his fingers. Or chop off his hands. Or apply electric shocks to his genitals. Or mutilate, rape, and kill his wives and daughters and behead his sons. Or we could starve him, beat him mercilessly, and then drop him into a kind of human shredder. Then, we could anthrax his entire bloodline to obliviation like they were Kurds.
Then it'd be just like old times for Saddam.
F____ him. Satan is heating up his ovens for this prick even as we speak, and we're gonna arrange his trip.
Hows it feel like to have nearly a million souls waiting to take their revenge uon you
I think Senator Robert (sheets) Byrd would be quite jealous if he wasn't invited to the party
Don't worry, he won't be complaining long. Soon he will be turned over to the Iraqi people to be dealt with according to Iraqi law. :o)
Now, we all know that once he's turned over into Iraqi hands, you will promptly lose interest in him. After all, your sole purpose in life is to throw stones at the US. Hypocrites!
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Poor baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't worry Saddam .. soon we'll be handing you over to the Iraqi people
I'm sure they will give you the proper treatment that you deserve
"Dignity and Respect" is a buzz-phrase in the army these days. Everything is done with "Dignity and Respect". It's lame, but that's the way it is.
I just want someone guarding this subhuman freak to push the 'human shredder' that Uday and Quesay (sp) used to shred up, feet first, fellow Iraqi's to a space somewhere ourside of Saddam's cell, but well within his viewing range. And, of course, it would be extra good if they were to play the torture videos Saddam so enjoyed once upon a time, for his current viewing enjoyment...perhaps giving him something to ponder when the US forces no longer guard his pathetic arse.
Could someone show Sadaam videos of his torture and murders? He's being treated like a king! WE truly have become a joke.
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