Excerpts from Saddam Hussein’s Memoirs - Part 4
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Sphere: Related ContentOh, how the American infidels taunt me! When speaking of my beloved Iraq and their justifications for toppling me, they talk of liberation. They claim that my people needed to be liberated. Yet they know nothing about liberating.You want to know what is liberating? Walking around in your underpants. You should all try it some time.
An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
They are not that well made anyhow.
May 23rd, 2005 at 1:39 am
Andrew Schamess writes:
I answered your post. See here and here.
May 23rd, 2005 at 3:43 am
Assuming you are voicing your objection to me including the picture, I have no compunctions about ridiculing one of the most murderous villains of modern times. Well, my only concern was regarding how the picture may put some people off their food for a while.
With regard to your post, don’t worry, I’ll get around to answering it.
May 23rd, 2005 at 4:47 am
*Micol* writes:
It’s not so much respect for HIM, it’s more respect for themselves, for their country and nationality. It’s no fun being showed again and again that the US managed to do to him what they’ve dreamed of doing to him for decades.
No one would ever object to Hitler being shown in his undies. Showing one of the most evil people of history in such a vulnerable situation is pretty relieving. He’s just a human being, even though he had a sort of “superpower” for a while. What joy to see pictures of Arafat looking like Snow White’s long-lost 8th dwarf.
What annoys me is the double standards. No one objects pictures of Bush with traces on his face after his choking-on-a-pretzel incident (you can’t deny it, rather humiliating for a newly elected president to almost die - from a pretzel!). No one said anything about the pictures of Peres in his boxer shorts (twas around 1998 if anyone remembers… I don’t especially like the guy, but he was always a democratically elected politician, and I found it rather harsh that yediot ahronot or maariv or whoever it was would show pictures of him like that). If such pictures of Sharon or Bibi would surface, I’m convinced that none of the people who are having a cow over the Sun would bat an eyelash. Yet for the person who’s responsible for wiping out a whole kurish village of 5000 people by gassing them in one afternoon, you protest? For such barely human scum? The only thing I can find to criticize is the fact that the Geneva conventions as such were trespassed in order for this picture to surface. But I have no problem with the picture itself.
(see Dave, this is what happens when I *don’t* erase what I’ve just written
regret convincing us to leave our comments?)
May 23rd, 2005 at 4:52 am
Not at all. You expressed my exact thoughts articulately.
May 23rd, 2005 at 4:55 am
Anonymous writes:
rumsfeld and saddam shaking hands, even captured on film. No outrage about torture, WMD or “freedom” back then.
May 23rd, 2005 at 5:16 am
Anonymous writes:
This is just brilliant!
Will Saddam launch his own brand - ‘Fruit of the Doom’?
Jen
May 23rd, 2005 at 12:55 pm
I never said the US were angels. Politics remain politics.
Funny though, how people criticize the US for being “friendly” with Saddam while he was gassing and killing people, more than they criticize Saddam himself
May 24th, 2005 at 8:26 am
Nemesis6 writes: