Well, well, well. Here's another empty suit hiding behind "the cloth":
"Cardinal Says U.S. Treated Saddam 'Like a Cow'
Tue December 16, 2003 07:59 AM ET
By Philip Pullella
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 Vatican's 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 Saddam's arrest.
Martino was referring to the videotape released by the U.S. military which showed a grubby, bearded and disheveled Saddam receiving a medical examination by a military doctor after his capture in an underground hole Saturday.>>
Does anyone recall hearing this man speak words of compassion and concern for the thousands that were murdered, butchered, or tortured???
At least Saddam didn't treat any on his victums "like a cow". How humiliating that would have been. Surely, they opted to receive torture, instead. |
