[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.

[Mrs.Liberty]

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

Ahhh, I see. When compared to the other butchering b*stards, Tariq Azziz was only a 9 on a scale of 10?

[Dolphy]

The article about Uday's present was in the NY Times today. A friend gave me a copy so I don't have a link. It would really turn your stomach to read the entire thing. It was based on interviews with some men who had been tortured, one having lost his tongue, another his ear.