Posted on 12/31/2006 7:08:11 PM PST by pitinkie
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A military nurse who cared for Saddam Hussein in jail said the deposed dictator saved bread crusts to feed birds and seldom complained to his captors, except when he had legitimate gripes.
Ellis, 56, an operating room nurse in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, said he was ordered to do whatever was needed to keep Saddam alive.
"That was my job: to keep him alive and healthy, so they could kill him at a later date," he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for a story published Sunday. Saddam was executed Saturday.
When Ellis told Saddam he had to leave for America because his brother was dying, Saddam hugged him and said he would be Ellis' brother.
"I was there to help him, and he respected that," Ellis said.
Saddam never discussed dying and expressed no regrets about his rule.
"He said everything he did was for Iraq," Ellis said. "One day when I went to see him, he asked why we invaded. Well, he made gestures like shooting a machine gun and asked why soldiers came and shot up the place. He said the laws in Iraq were fair and the weapons inspectors didn't find anything.
"I said, 'That's politics. We soldiers don't get caught up in that sort of thing.'"
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She did a great job!!!
He used to buy his mum flowers and that.
He sounds like a soft touch to me! I wouldnt have been so nice!
Mega-BARF!!!
Saddam would feed the birds crusts of bread saved from his meals. He also watered a dusty plot of weeds.
Yeah, Hitler liked puppies and Himmler was a chicken farmer.
Hey, Hitler loved dogs. Go figure!
I know thats why the barf alert...media trying to find the good in a scumbag.
Snif.
>>Saddam told Ellis that cigars and coffee kept his blood pressure down, and it seemed to work. Saddam would insist that Ellis smoke with him.<<
Okay...whatever....One would think a "nurse" would know better.
These stories are inevitable.
Just like they Ford memorial stories are spun to make GWBush look bad,
It is inevitable that the humanity of the rank and file jail workers would be abused into america bad spin.
"He said everything he did was for Iraq,"
Who has all the links for the atrocities committed under his rule?
They need to be posted on a thread like this.
Just wanted to add, that my barf was directed only towards Saddam and the newspaper. Ellis did a good job, and God Bless him and his deceased brother.
But if Saddam would have hugged me (shudder!) and offered to be my brother (yikes!), I would have pushed him away and said that a genocidal mass-murderer would NEVER replace my brother.
Someone just shoot me now.
Jeffrey Dahmer, The Son of Sam, the Preppie killer, etc all had a 'softer side' too- lots of violent psychopathic serial killers liek Saddam aren't always violent- BUT they ARE mass murderers at heart- what is your point Heir Nursie? http://sacredscoop.com
""He said everything he did was for Iraq," "
Thats why he used the oil for food money to buy golden thrones and palaces while the people of iraq starved and lacked basic medical supplies.
Just a typical story in the St Louis Post Disgrace.
This is like the American Guard at Nuremburg who made friends
with Goering and smuggled him a cyanide pill. Saddam could be
charming. He used it on the nurse.
Thye birdman of Baghdad....
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