Some Iraqis Want Saddam Freed, Back as President

Reuters ^ | 7/1/04 | Lin Noueihed

[cardinal4]

Some people liked Pinochet as well..

[Starve The Beast]

Many Iraqis want Saddam to be executed, some say they would rather he suffer a more protracted punishment for 35 years of Baathist brutality that saw Sunni Muslim Arabs favored at the expense of the Shi'ite majority and the minority Kurds.

The vast majority of Iraqis who are delighted that Saddam's boot is no longer on their necks. The above short paragraph is the only mention they got.

The mainstream news media isn't even pretending to be unbiased any more.

[anniegetyourgun]

Yep, this so-called journalistic effort (Reuters) stinks to high heaven. But no where near as badly as the following attitude. This "Arab humiliation" seems to override all sense and sensibilities. No wonder women and children are at risk under such regimes.

"He was a president, an Arab leader. I feel all Arabs are humiliated when I see him as a prisoner like this, no matter what he did," said Faleh Jasem, a driver who was watching the first footage of Saddam facing an Iraqi judge."

[Hotdog]

I was in Slovokia a couple of months ago...I meet a few people that wanted communisim back but only a few...the majority love the life they have now and admit it will take a while before all 8 cyl are firing.

Another point...some people in the US want Kerry for president too...

[nuffsenuff]

Can someone please tell one of our fine troops in Iraq that a certain Ahmed Abdallah has requested a personal visit?

Thanks in advance.

[Hotdog]

meet = met

[TBarnett34]

"Under Saddam, I used to work in the government. Now I am sitting at home," said Abdallah, another Adhimiya resident who declined to give his full name.

Is there some reason this idiot isn't standing trial?

[anniegetyourgun]

The mainstream media will go to great lengths to seek out the minority opinion, so as to enlarge it's real strength, thereby furthering their own agenda.

[nuffsenuff]

Adhimiya district = Target

NOW!

[Free_at_last_-2001]

What a worthless news outlet! - Agreed!

[Arrowhead1952]

Probably a campaign quote from John F'ing kerry - "If it were up to me, I would bring him [Saddam] back as president today, not tomorrow."

Didn't he claim to have talked to several foreign leaders who want him to win the election? Didn't he also say he was in Vietnam?

[Wait4Truth]

I knew this was from Reuters just reading the title.

[SheLion]

They long for the return of the day when children could turn in their parents for saying something negative about Saddam and be taken away and killed. Or, when a wife could go to the police and make up a story about her husband plotting against the government and never have to see him come home again.

Totally sick.  How easily swayed some of them are still to this day.  And to hear the young people speak like this just makes me sick.  To have this brutal tyrant off of the streets is a blessing.  But some of them still don't see it this way.

It might be a very long haul.

[SheLion]

The mainstream media will go to great lengths to seek out the minority opinion, so as to enlarge it's real strength, thereby furthering their own agenda.

Does it make you sick? It sure makes "me" sick!

[JoeSixPack1]

I feel all Arabs are humiliated when I see him as a prisoner like this, no matter what he did,...

as long as he didn't do it to you, right? Jerk was probably next on the feed-into-the-shredder list and still doesn't know it.

[GiveEmDubya]

This one man, couldn't have been more then 23 years-old, stated that Saddam was right. Bush should be in court because he is the criminal. Not Saddam. Made me sick. I switched back to Fox.

I didn't know Michael Moore is 23!

[BadAndy]

Letting Saddam survive capture/interrogation was an incredibly stupid error on our part.

[LadyShallott]

"I would feel so hurt if they executed him, because he took a heroic position. He stood up to America and that makes him a real man in my eyes."

Im sure real men execute, gas women and children, deny education, and build shredders in their backyard for enjoyment. Please let us not forget the chopping off of hands, arms, tongues and torture. Saddam is a real demon.I think his father Satan should be very proud. I will take a real cowboy over this slime anyday. This is so disturbing.

[anniegetyourgun]

These so-called journalists are becoming increasingly transparent as each week marches on to election day. It goes beyond making me sick....