Chirac and Saddam were friends. He's gotta be worried.
..why Bush administration let this monster live.. Because he didn't put up a fight and our soldiers aren't assassins.
I have this fantasy that they let Saddam see Fatandhigh 911 and he praises the movie in a future courtroom outburst. Even better if he'd endorse Kerry or something or call on Americans to turn Bush out of office.
Won't happen though. Future court appearances will involve the bringing of specific criminal charges and that'll be the subject matter. Looks like Saddam's defense is gonna be something like, "I AM still the President of Iraq so I could do what I want. Including invading Kuwait because it is part of Iraq. "
Here's an interesting story on Saddam and Iraq:
Hip-Swaying Dancing Doll Ridicules Saddam
Wed Jun 30,10:34 AM ETA
By Luke Baker
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqis used to dance to his tune, but in Baghdad toy shops a chubby, gun-toting Saddam Hussein doll now wiggles his hips to the "Hippy Hippy Shake."
Toy stores around Baghdad are doing a quick trade in dancing Saddam dolls -- foot-high battery-powered puppets of the former president, kitted out in full insurgent regalia, who swing their hips to cheesy pop music at the flick of a switch.
Decked out with hand-grenades, daggers, a walkie-talkie, binoculars and an AK-47, Saddam dances to the "Hippy Hippy Shake" when turned on.
"It's funny, isn't it?" said Mustapha al-Kadamy, a young father as he browsed through a toy store in the wealthy Mansoor district and prepared to buy one of the dancing Saddams.
"Tomorrow Saddam will go before an Iraqi judge and so today is a good day to make fun of him -- we need to be able to smile after all the horrible things he's done to us."
The owner of the store started offering the dolls shortly after Saddam's regime was overthrown in April last year.
A Turkish traveling salesmen turned up with the Chinese-made puppets, also featuring dancing Osama bin Ladens, Fidel Castros and George W. Bushes, and he placed an order.
At first it was the hip-shaking Osamas that sold best, but slowly Iraqis grew less fearful of ridiculing their deposed president and started buying the Saddam ones too.
"At the beginning we'd hide them under the counter and only sell them to those who specially asked because people were upset to see the former president as a doll," explained Asaad Majid, a salesman in the al-Jelawi toy store in Mansoor.
"Now we're not scared anymore, we display them openly, and people buy them regularly," he said, adding that demand peaked soon after Saddam was captured last December.
Thursday, the real Saddam and 11 of his associates will go before an Iraqi judge to be charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Saddam's trial is not expected to begin until early next year.
There was little doubt about Saddam's guilt in the minds of customers and sales staff Wednesday.
"If he's executed, then that's the end of it -- it's too easy for him," said Ala, a sales assistant at Jelawi's.
"It would be better to keep him in prison for the rest of his life so that he has to suffer every day."
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