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To: Enigma who wrote (510739)	12/16/2003 12:18:37 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Technically, it violated the Geneva Convention.

To: Enigma who wrote (510739)	12/16/2003 12:25:23 AM
From: JJL (Hijacked)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Agree about the hypocrisy. Also, should there ever be a trial, lots of dirty laundry will be aired. I don't think it's in American government's interest to give this guy a forum to tell his side of the story. I wouldn't be surprised if he dies from a sudden heart attack before his trial date.

To: Enigma who wrote (510739)	12/16/2003 12:44:06 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

And what of Rumsfeld's inappropriateness that Saddam should have shot himself, that he was a coward 'cause he didn't. Do you think Arab-thinking people think of Saddam as a coward after more than a decade of his defiant standing against three American presidents? And since when has suicide become an acceptably espoused standard? Get those cowboys out of the White House. Get someone in there who believes education and diplomacy are a far more powerful tools than showing off, acting tough or manipulating media. Much of what is complained about what Saddam did happened before the US decided to give money to him for weapons procurement. Where was the complaint then? For that matter, where was Rumsfeld then? Unfortunately, the American media has become like quarterbacks, except they throw message balls to the any viewer willing to grab the message on the ball and then it gets passed around to others, accurate or not. I continue to submit that perhaps the greatest casualty of this war has become the American media. What it reports (or fails to report) has become more and more spoonfeed, both contradictory and unreliable. This is a true tragedy in a land that's supposedly free and a free land that requires a media that challenges instead of accepts and directs. If there's any comfort from this Saddam capture it's that it got Michael Jackson out of the public consciousness, if but for a brief spell; just as Jackson got Bush and Prince Charles out of the public consciousness during the Bush Brit visit protests and the Miami world trade protests. Oh, well.

To: Enigma who wrote (510739)	12/16/2003 8:43:55 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 769670

Why do you believe that Saddam deserves any considerations? Ask the families that lost family members, ask the tortured, ask the families in Kuwait and Iran...yes he was humiliated because he did not look like a leader, but, he was not a leader, he was a brutal thug and nothing more. He did not come across as a thig when captured, he came across as a nothing which he is now that he does not have his regime backing him up. I do not believe it was a blight...and I do not know what difference it would have made if we only showed him cleaned up. There is a difference of showing soldiers and Saddam. I agree with him too - and incidentally the public humiliation of Sadaam is a blight on America as a civilised nation.

To: Enigma who wrote (510739)	12/16/2003 9:10:15 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

ROFLMAO!!! Maybe Tim Robbin's hairdresser should have gotten first crack at him. And he's going to need a nice Armani suit and new Guccis when he appears for his special service award at the Oscars next Spring. Let's remember California here! We should see about distributing Saddam!! posters throughout the Republic of Rumpranger, and college campuses across America. After all, it worked-though too late-for CHE...