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Military Nurse Recalls Softer Saddam (barf alert)
Bellsouth News ^ | 12/31/06 | AP

Posted on 12/31/2006 7:08:11 PM PST by pitinkie

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To: pitinkie

A new low for ap.


61 posted on 12/31/2006 8:47:17 PM PST by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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To: BlackVeil; SolidWood
Could Sadaam speak English?

From Dan Rather's interview with Saddam Hussein on February 26, 2003 :

Rather: Mr. President, I hope you will take this question in the spirit in which it's asked. First of all, I regret that I do not speak Arabic. Do you speak any-- any English at all?

Saddam Hussein: (In Arabic…) Have some coffee

Translator for Saddam Hussein: Americans like coffee….

Rather: That's true and this American likes coffee.

Saddam Hussein: I am sorry, I do not speak English - fluently. But I can understand to some extent.

Rather: Well, would you speak some English for me? Anything you choose?

Saddam Hussein: Our language is Arabic.


62 posted on 12/31/2006 8:47:40 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: FreedomCalls; SolidWood

Informative, thanks for that reference.

My impression was that Sadaam could not speak English. No doubt he could, as he says there, understand some of it (probably might know what the topic of a news broadcast was). But that does not add up to fluent banter.


63 posted on 12/31/2006 8:50:58 PM PST by BlackVeil
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To: pitinkie
A military nurse who cared for Saddam Hussein in jail said the deposed dictator saved bread crusts to feed birds..

This must be comforting to those who's tongues he had cut out, acid thrown on their faces, fed alive through plastic shredders and the hundreds of thousands he had sent to mass graves.

He fed crusts to birds.

Incredible.

64 posted on 12/31/2006 9:08:38 PM PST by Jorge
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To: GSlob

The article says that MSGT Ellis was a nurse. During my days in the Air Force all "nurses" were commissioned officers, not non-coms.


65 posted on 12/31/2006 9:33:23 PM PST by politicalwit (Freedom doesn't mean a Free Pass.)
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To: politicalwit

"...During my days in the Air Force all "nurses" were commissioned officers, not non-coms..."

Same here, in the navy. The only non-coms were corpsmen, or if army, or air force, medics. It's possible to be a nurse, and be an NCO, if you're an LPN, rather than an RN, of course, but as far as I know, all RN's are commissioned officers. The military, though, doesn't recognize the status of LPN's, and doesn't grant them any more status than a corpsman/medic.


66 posted on 12/31/2006 11:48:21 PM PST by jim35 ("...when the lion and the lamb lie down together, ...we'd better damn sure be the lion")
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To: Albion Wilde

"Stockholm syndrome in reverse. Boo frikkin' hoo."

You should read how he is being eulogized by the forum members at thelocal.se (Sweden)


67 posted on 01/01/2007 1:08:03 AM PST by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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To: politicalwit

I thought that also..hubby said maybe he is an LPN.


68 posted on 01/01/2007 9:05:12 AM PST by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: SolidWood
Either the nurse speaks Arabic (dubious) or the story about the nice small talk is made up.

Whatttt??? A reporter making a story up???? I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you!

69 posted on 01/01/2007 10:34:20 AM PST by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: School of Rational Thought
You should read how he is being eulogized by the forum members at thelocal.se (Sweden)

Thanks, but I'll pass on that!! :-D

70 posted on 01/01/2007 10:35:58 AM PST by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: AppyPappy

"'e was like a brother to me."


71 posted on 01/01/2007 10:45:41 AM PST by rabidralph (Happy New Year, y'all!)
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To: pitinkie

Our local liberal Gannett (redundant) rag here in SW MO picked up this "story". Barf is right.


72 posted on 01/01/2007 10:51:29 AM PST by GnuHere
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To: GnuHere

gross


73 posted on 01/01/2007 11:06:23 AM PST by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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