DON'T BE HATIN'
Posted on 12/27/2006 9:37:21 AM PST by Soothesayer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis not to hate the U.S.-led forces that invaded Iraq in 2003 in a farewell letter posted on a Web site Wednesday, a day after an appeals court upheld the former dictator's death sentence and ordered him to be hanged within one month.
One of Saddam's attorneys, Issam Ghazzawi, confirmed to The Associated Press in Jordan that the letter was authentic, saying it was written by Saddam on Nov. 5 — the day he was convicted by an Iraqi tribunal for ordering the killings of scores of Shiite Muslims in the city of Dujail in 1982.
"I call on you not to hate because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking," the letter said.
Ghazzawi said the letter was released on Tuesday and published on Saddam's former Baath Party's Web site on Wednesday.
The deposed leader said he was writing the letter because his lawyers had told him the Iraqi High Tribunal which tried his case would give him an opportunity to say a final word.
"But that court and its chief judge did not give us the chance to say a word, and issued its verdict without explanation and read out the sentence — dictated by the invaders — without presenting the evidence," Saddam wrote.
"Dear faithful people," Saddam added, "I say goodbye to you, but I will be with the merciful God who helps those who take refuge in him and who will never disappoint any honest believer..."
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Probably just a donor. :)
"I say goodbye to you, but I will be with the merciful God who helps those who take refuge in him and who will never disappoint any honest believer..."
A question that begs asking:
Does this morons god own a plastic shredder?
I think I am going to cry...
because I just spilled my beer.
Remember, Hussein is an avowed secularist who never wanted anything to do with Islamic militancy.
Oh, that entire copy of the Koran which he had written out in his own donated blood?
That was just an example of his love of calligraphy, not a sign of insane devotion to Islam or anything.
My dear Iraqi subjects: After I'm gone, love each other, just as I and my sons loved [to torture, maim, murder, rape and rob] you.
He must have a ghost writer.
"I say goodbye to you, as I will be roasting in Hell and permanent fixture on the worst of the Pit Fiends dance cards for being the filthy animal that I am!"
There, I fixed it.
Reported on to a big yawn by the media when it was first released.
We should support any effort he may wish to contribute to calming the situation if at all possible.
President Bush should find out what Miz Rice thinks and do the opposite.
DON'T BE HATIN'
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