If I remember correctly, I read somewhere that Mr. Phelps and some members of his cult flew to Iraq to meet with Saddam to give him their support for his stance against the United States. Of course Saddam had no idea who they were, but through the efforts of one of his p.r. advisors, he met with them, apparently to thank them for their support. The tidbit below was taken from Wikipedia’s entry for Fred Phelps. The link is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps
Saddam Hussein
In 2003, before the fall of Saddam Hussein during the Iraq War, Phelps wrote Hussein a letter praising his regime for being, in his opinion, “the only Muslim state that allows the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to be freely and openly preached on the streets.”[40] Furthermore, he stated that he would like to send a delegation to Baghdad to “preach the Gospel” for one week. Hussein granted permission, and a group of WBC congregants traveled to Iraq to protest against the U.S. The WBC members stood on the streets of Baghdad holding signs condemning Bill and Hillary Clinton and anal sex.[41] After Saddam was hanged, Phelps released a video commentary that stated that both Saddam Hussein and Gerald Ford (who had died the same week) were now in Hell.
If this turd and his inbred cult show up at any of the funerals for the VT victims, I hope that law enforcement turns a very blind eye from them and allows a little bit of vigilante justice to be performed ... I think that it is the only way that this group is going to get the message that they are not to be seen nor heard from ever again.
P.S. Pray for the victims, their families, and everyone affected by this tragedy.
Peace out,
Front 242
Florida, U.S.A.
Oh, by the way, I found another small sampling of the vileness that Mr. Phelps and his cult like to spew ... it can be found via the Anti Defamation League’s website at the following link:
http://www.adl.org/special_reports/wbc/wbc_on_america.asp
They seem to have a more complete transcript of the pro-Saddam support promulgated by the Phelps clan. He it is in its entirety:
“We understand that Iraq is the only Muslim state that allows the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to be freely and openly preached on the streets without fear of arrest and prosecution. Alas, the United States no longer allows the Gospel to be freely and openly preached on the streets, because militant sodomites now control our government, and they violently object to the Bible message...The same majoritarian sodomite tyranny that now guides the Clinton administration’s repressive policies toward Gospel preaching on America’s streets, is apparently responsible — at least in part — for the merciless slaughter by starvation of 400 innocent Iraqi babies each day in your country. If our government and laws will allow it, and at the invitation of your government, we would like to send a delegation from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, to preach the Gospel on the streets of Baghdad for one week in the near future.”
— Fred Phelps, in a letter to Saddam Hussein,
November 30, 1997
Take care everyone,
Front 242