[Dolphy]

Wolf just said when he was over there very recently and Aziz's villa---a lovely villa, he added!---Wolf detected a lot of sympathy for Aziz. He asks Nic how much sympathy will he have in and out of Iraq.

I know I shouldn't be but I am shocked that Blitzer could say such an idiotic thing. We read today how Iraqi's tongues were held by pliers, sliced off with box cutters and in one case given to Uday as a present and Wolf thinks any member of such a regime would have sympathy?

[Mrs.Liberty]

Wolf just said when he was over there very recently and Aziz's villa---a lovely villa, he added!---Wolf detected a lot of sympathy for Aziz. He asks Nic how much sympathy will he have in and out of Iraq.

Wolf is a whore, easily bought off by trips to swanky villas. Someone who lives in such a lovely villa cannot be so bad.

[cyncooper]

We read today how Iraqi's tongues were held by pliers, sliced off with box cutters and in one case given to Uday as a present and Wolf thinks any member of such a regime would have sympathy?

I have read accounts of tongues being cut--right up to the day that we went in. I had not heard any stories today, in particular, and had not heard about the "given to Uday" part (though I'm not surprised).

Before Blitzer went to his Pentagon guy (who seemed to have Aziz in the correct perspective) and then Robertson, Wolf had a reporter in studio (I think his name is James Clancy) who said "to sit down for a half hour interview with Tariq Aziz was a breath of fresh air". Yes, that's what he said.

His reasoning was along the lines that Aziz's rhetoric was not as strident or something.