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‘Distraught’ Saddam begging for mercy, Iraqi PM says ..Saddam claims he meant no harm.”
MSNBC ^ | 9:58 a.m. ET Sept. 20, 2004 | MSNBC staff and news service reports

Posted on 09/20/2004 12:12:01 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

In this July 1 file photo cleared by the U.S. military, Saddam Hussein appears in a courtroom at Camp Victory, on the outskirts of Baghdad.

CAIRO, Egypt - Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is depressed and has begged the Iraqi government for mercy, Iraq’s Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview published on Monday.

“Saddam and his colleagues are not the giants that the media sometimes talks about,” Allawi said in an interview with the pan Arab al-Hayat newspaper. “Saddam sent us an oral message in which he begged for mercy. He said that they were working in the public interest and did not mean any harm.”

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; prisonersaddam
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Chip him.


21 posted on 09/20/2004 12:33:03 PM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Justice is complete if his 72 virgins bear resemblance to Helen Thomas, Janet Reno, and Hillary Clinton!
22 posted on 09/20/2004 12:38:10 PM PDT by The Great Yazoo (Hey! Hey! J-eFing-K! How many Vets did you Diss today?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Dear Saddam-

Before we put you through the chipper with assorted pork products, just how much oil-for-food money did the Clintons get?


23 posted on 09/20/2004 12:39:20 PM PDT by Lexington Green (Follow the money - Saddam to Rich to Clinton)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Those who show no mercy deserve no mercy.


24 posted on 09/20/2004 12:41:31 PM PDT by William Martel (Anyone But Kerry in 2004.)
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To: AdamSelene235

Chip em dano!

25 posted on 09/20/2004 12:41:42 PM PDT by mc5cents ("We will have to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton)
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To: Grampa Dave
10 to 1 it has been posted here but I can't turn it up but I did find this essentially same article from I think New Zealand that Mad Ivan had posted

Distraught Saddam begs for mercy - Allawi

I don't have bugmenot working yet or I would just go the NY Times and post it.

26 posted on 09/20/2004 12:43:20 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Rumor is that he (Saddam) will begin to be executed on January 20, 2005, 12:00 PM., and the Iraqi's promise to shoot straight.



They've been given .22 cal , H&R short barreled pistols and will start at aiming at his feet from 100 meters.

27 posted on 09/20/2004 12:45:56 PM PDT by G.Mason (A war mongering, red white and blue, military industrial complex, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Is Saddam and Dan Rather trying to out do each other on the unbelievable statement meter?


28 posted on 09/20/2004 12:47:24 PM PDT by swheats
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To: The Great Yazoo
"Justice is complete if his 72 virgins bear resemblance to Helen Thomas, Janet Reno, and Hillary Clinton!"

You got close. Really, really close. ;)

29 posted on 09/20/2004 12:48:01 PM PDT by G.Mason (A war mongering, red white and blue, military industrial complex, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Yes I fed people into the plastic shredder....but I didn't mean it.

I was for gassing people before I was against gassing people.


30 posted on 09/20/2004 12:48:46 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Hang this clown already.


31 posted on 09/20/2004 12:50:41 PM PDT by DoctorMichael (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Grampa Dave
This might be the article:

For Hussein, a Spartan Life at His Former Palace

It has this statement:

But he has refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing, or to show remorse for the hundreds of thousands of people killed during his 24-year dictatorship, officials say. He has insisted that his position as Iraq's president gave him legal authority for all he did and that his victims were "traitors." At every encounter, the officials say, he insists that he is still the constitutionally elected president.

34 posted on 09/20/2004 1:01:30 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: swheats
Is Saddam and Dan Rather trying to out do each other on the unbelievable statement meter?

Sure looks like it to me.

35 posted on 09/20/2004 1:02:57 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

eee-ee-eee-ee-aaahh....

That's the sound of the world's tiniest violin...


36 posted on 09/20/2004 1:06:36 PM PDT by agooga
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thanks!


37 posted on 09/20/2004 1:11:17 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will the ABCNNBC BS lunatic libs stop Rathering to Americans? Answer: NEVER!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

If only somebody has EXPLAINED to him at the BEGINNING of his political career that people don't LIKE having their hands and feet cut off and being raped and fed through chippers...


38 posted on 09/20/2004 1:11:48 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

MY GOD!!! Freepers, freepers, freepers.......... where are our hearts. this man is opening up and realizing his mistakes. He may be able to be rehabilitated. Then he will probably vote democratic....shoot the bastard!


39 posted on 09/20/2004 3:45:32 PM PDT by longfellow (You're either with US or from Hollywood! Ultimateamerican.com)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

He meant no harm. Gimme a break!


40 posted on 09/20/2004 3:45:59 PM PDT by tob2 (Old fossil and proud of it.)
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