VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A top Vatican official said Tuesday he felt pity and compassion for Saddam Hussein and criticized the U.S. military for showing video footage of him being treated like a cow.
Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Vaticans Justice and Peace department and a former papal envoy to the United Nations, told a news conference it would be illusory to think the arrest of the former Iraqi president would heal all the damage caused by a war which the Holy See opposed.
I felt pity to see this man destroyed, (the military) looking at his teeth as if he were a cow. They could have spared us these pictures, he said.
Seeing him like this, a man in his tragedy, despite all the heavy blame he bears, I had a sense of compassion for him, he said in answer to questions about Saddams arrest.
And this relates to your earlier assertion how?