Awwww. Poow widdo Saddam.Don't wowwy, Saddam ..... it'll get bettew.
Registered Pic: Saddam's Day in Court
Posted on 04/07/2005 9:55:50 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Saddam Hussein watched the televised election of Iraq's new president from his jail cell yesterday and was "clearly upset", a senior official said.
Jalal Talabani, a former Kurdish guerrilla commander and sworn enemy of Saddam, was elected to the highest office in a parliamentary ballot, bringing a new government a step closer.
Under Saddam the only way Mr Talabani would have left his northern redoubt was in chains or a coffin, but yesterday he arrived in Baghdad in a blaze of triumph.
Adel Abdul-Mahdi, a Shia who is finance minister in the outgoing government, and Ghazi al-Yawer, a Sunni Arab tribal leader, were elected vice-presidents.
It was galling viewing for Saddam, according to Bakhtiar Amin, the human rights minister, who said the former dictator had chosen to view the recording of the parliamentary vote.
"He was clearly upset. He realised that it was over, that a democratic process had taken place and that there was a new, elected president," Mr Amin told Reuters.
He said the footage demonstrating the progress towards a democratically elected government could change attitudes in the prison camp where Saddam and his former aides are being held.
"They know for sure that they are not coming back and my feeling is that they may be inclined to be more honest when they go before the tribunal," he said.
The trials are due to begin later this year.
Mr Talabani, 72, promised pluralism and respect for Iraq's Islamic identity in his acceptance speech.
"After being liberated from the most hideous of dictatorships our people - the Arabs, the Kurds, the Turkomans and the Assyrians - want to build a new Iraq free from dictatorship and tyranny, a democratic, unified Iraq," he said.
Without naming Syria or Iran, he warned neighbouring states against helping insurgents, and promised to build up Iraq's security forces.
kind of stinks to be a deposed dictator, huh?
He's saddened...deeply saddened.
And even worse, to be a deposed dictator imprisioned by your former subjects/victims.
Awwww. Poow widdo Saddam.Don't wowwy, Saddam ..... it'll get bettew.
Registered Pic: Saddam's Day in Court
I can't believe we are torturing him like this.
Do I need the sarcasm tag?
I suppose it would upset him after his massive gas-murdering of Kurds a few years ago. Obviously he regrets that he didn't gas ALL the Kurds.
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A story that just puts a smile on your face!
...tuff
Doogle
I can hear the libs now....all we're doing is torturing another innocent Iraq citizen.
I can imagine... "Uh oh. My DP appeal will end with a Kurd?"
Thats what I was thinking. This SOB gets to watch TV?
One of the satisfactions of deposing a dictator is to have him look at who succeeded him as the new head of state. Too bad we could not have done that with Adolf Hitler, but the world had some short-term satisfaction in sending Napoleon to Elba.
Unfortunately, because Napoleon was not executed, he did manage to escape Elba and return to France, where he simply continued what was essentially his iron grip on the destiny of France.
on second thought...
he really should have been finished off like his sons.
Shot in the head and left in the spider hole...marked clearly as his final resting place. Each insurgent afterwards when caught,brought to saddam's resting place to ponder their fate...and shot in the head.
We would have had most of our troops home shortly there after.
Doogle
I hope Saddam lives long enough to see everything of his rule erased and his name become synonemous with evil of the worst sort.
Can you say WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
There is method to that madness. Part of the interrogation process is to break himm down by making him watch re-runs of the "Brady Bunch".
I think we've found a brand new method of torture. Forcing dictators and terrorists to watch hours and hours of news coverage of successes achieved by their enemies.
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