‘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

[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.”

[Hank Rearden]

Chip him.

[The Great Yazoo]

Justice is complete if his 72 virgins bear resemblance to Helen Thomas, Janet Reno, and Hillary Clinton!

[Lexington Green]

Dear Saddam-

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

[William Martel]

Those who show no mercy deserve no mercy.

[mc5cents]

Chip em dano!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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.

[G.Mason]

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.

[swheats]

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

[G.Mason]

"Justice is complete if his 72 virgins bear resemblance to Helen Thomas, Janet Reno, and Hillary Clinton!"

You got close. Really, really close. ;)

[DannyTN]

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.

[DoctorMichael]

Hang this clown already.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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

Sure looks like it to me.

[agooga]

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

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

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks!

[Arthur McGowan]

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...

[longfellow]

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!

[tob2]

He meant no harm. Gimme a break!