Alone in his world of lies ... the last days of Saddam

The Times ^ | March 29, 2003 | Ben Macintyre

[JCEccles]

Mateus rose and a blood-writ Qu'ran.

[sweetliberty]

Great post, as always Ivan. Saddam is finally reaping what he has sown.

[ffusco]

"The lobster and Mateus rosé are no longer flown in twice a week."
LOL

I wonder if he listens to "Steely Dan?"

[sweetliberty]

"Hope so. With all that hiding, he must have "Bunker Butt", by now"

[Taffini]

"I want to see him hanging from a scaffold for his crimes"

Hang him from the two giant crossed swords that cross over that wide street in Baghdad. The structure that forms an arc.

Let him dangle and twist in the wind till his dead body starts to stink up the neighborhood.

Let the abused and tormented have a few days to view the coward and enjoy the freedom they waited for for so long.

[Mister Baredog]

Mateus rosé? It's hard to get Thunderbird in Baghdad.

Hey, Mateus has a cork!

[eeriegeno]

'Father of all Narcissists'

And the mother of all cowards

There is a vast difference between 'hunkering in a bunker' and 'cowering in a corner.'

I thought that Sadamn (John Wayne) Hussein liked to brandish his six-gun, shoot rifles in the air, and admire his swords? This pathetic creature could not possibly viewed as a martyr in the Arabic world.

[Grampa Dave]

His favorite video:

[mountaineer]

He used to watch CNN and Sky News, but now he has only his minions for information, and they lie.

You mean there's really a difference between CNN and Saddam's minions?

[Xenalyte]

That was exactly my thought - what good is being a dictator if the best wine you can get is rosé?

[mountaineer]

what good is being a dictator if the best wine you can get is rosé?

You'd think his buddy Jacques would send a little Bordeaux his way.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

There was a special on Discovery Channel this week titled "Killing Pablo" Escobar, the murderous Columbian narcoterrorist.

The similarities between Escobar's and Hussein's last days are amusing.

[TFMcGuire]

He will be viewed as a martyr because the Arab world will craft him into their own creation which bears no similarity to the sin-sculpted gargoyle he really is.

Please don't compare him with the character John Wayne demonstrated in his life and in his films.

[Ditter]

Cowering in the corner of his bunker? Maybe, but I think he is taking a dirt nap.

[nycgal]

Or dying, in fact, from cancer

Nah! I prefer he die a slow death from ebola, preferably contracted from his own stash of biological weapons.

[blastdad51]

Alone and afraid is an appropriate why for this varmit to die!

[MinuteGal]

What will he do one of these mornings when he wakes up and finds a severed camel's head in his bed?

Leni

[swheats]

I saw this on another thread, the idea I had in asking the question of why no picture of Saddam.

The pictures of Sadaam Hussein whom people hailed in the beginning with great hope everywhere. Sadaam Hussein with his hand outstretched. Sadaam Hussein firing his rifle. Sadaam Hussein in his Arab Headdress. Sadaam Hussein in his classic 30 year old picture - one or more of these four pictures seemed to be everywhere on walls, in the middle of the road, in homes, as statues - he was everywhere!
All seeing, all knowing, all encompassing.

[ErnBatavia]

The only way it could get any better than that is if he is suffering severely from wounds.

Word on the street is that Jacques just ain't hung that well...

[EternalVigilance]

That's disgusting!

But for those two, probably appropriate...