[Grampa Dave]

Since I don't read the Slimes, what did they say, "Allawi's portrait of toppled leader differs sharply from N.Y. Times report......"?

[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.

[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.