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Offline slimm50

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« on: December 16, 2003, 11:10:39 AM »
Cardinal Says U.S. Treated Saddam 'Like a Cow'  
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By Philip Pullella

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A top Vatican (news - web sites) official said Tuesday he felt pity and compassion for Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) 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 (news - web sites), 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. "


I wonder how he feels about the the butcher's victims and their suffering?
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Offline muckmaw

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« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2003, 11:14:27 AM »
I was thinking the same thing.

Maybe if we had video of the torture chambers in action, he might not feel so bad for Saddam.
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« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2003, 11:19:27 AM »
I think he's just one of those namby pamby libs who has to get oout of the tub to fart, and wouldn't say "****" if he had a mouthful. Almost sounds as if he merely objects to mucking up his daily news with unpleasant stories and pictures. Those kind of people just don't want to be reminded that bad men exist.
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Offline Mickey1992

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« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2003, 11:19:43 AM »
What a load of crap.  When I see the video, I see the US providing a medical check-up to someone that has been living in a hole for many months.  To this Vatican official he sees him being mistreated?
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Offline muckmaw

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« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2003, 11:22:26 AM »
I never understood the medial exam...

"Let's make sure he's good and healthy before we execute him!"
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Offline Wanker

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« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2003, 11:34:30 AM »
He's lucky we didn't treat him like a sheep!
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« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2003, 12:03:50 PM »
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He's lucky we didn't treat him like a sheep!


Or an alter-boy

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« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2003, 12:11:47 PM »
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Or an alter-boy

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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2003, 12:15:50 PM »
Yea!

Who was that silly man who said something about loving your enemy?
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Offline BEVO

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« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2003, 12:21:38 PM »
They weren't treating him like a cow, they were looking for a cyanide pill to keep him from commiting suicide....... which I believe is a CARDINAL sin. :)
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« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2003, 12:24:50 PM »
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Cardinal Says U.S. Treated Saddam 'Like a Cow'  

"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.  


If I understand his comments correctly, he isn't attacking the US government or the US people, he's attacking the US news services, who probably deserve to be attacked!
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« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2003, 12:36:38 PM »
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Yea!

Who was that silly man who said something about loving your enemy?


should have hugged & thanked him for giving us an excuse for our "Oil War" right?

they should have toss a grenade into the hole first then seen if anyone needed medical attention ... at least his followers would have thought he went down fighting ... and we'd save a boatload of time & $$ on his crazy arse
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« Reply #12 on: December 16, 2003, 12:37:51 PM »
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I never understood the medial exam...

"Let's make sure he's good and healthy before we execute him!"


lol who was supposed to be "we" ?
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Offline muckmaw

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« Reply #13 on: December 16, 2003, 12:51:53 PM »
Whoever flips the circuit breaker, I suppose.
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« Reply #14 on: December 16, 2003, 01:13:48 PM »
I thought the footage of the "inspection" was tasteless too.

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