To: Bobby777
Maybe he didn't see the video because he was in the U.S. The article states that the pastor flew from the U.S. to Iraq to meet with Saddam. In this country, he was seen as the standard Middle Eastern strongman in 1978.
I never saw the video, did you ?
12 posted on
03/30/2003 12:55:05 AM PST by
happygrl
To: happygrl
yep ... it's running on PBS ... it's about 1/2-way or a little more through ... there's about 60-90 seconds of video (roughly) that PBS shows ... it's a collage of several of their specials on the Gulf War and Saddam ...
Reportedly Saddam wanted it distributed ... nonetheless, if the guy had any ties in Iraq I'm sure news traveled far and wide ... any U.S. politician that ever considered putting Tariq Aziz in power instead of Saddam needs to see Tariq's tacit approval by his attendance ... while Saddam weeps, one of the guards standing next to him weeps too ... they're such sensitive guys ... not ...
14 posted on
03/30/2003 2:40:44 AM PST by
Bobby777
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