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Post by: slimm50 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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Post by: muckmaw 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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Post by: slimm50 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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Post by: Mickey1992 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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Post by: muckmaw 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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Post by: Wanker on December 16, 2003, 11:34:30 AM: He's lucky we didn't treat him like a sheep!
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Post by: Sikboy on December 16, 2003, 12:03:50 PM: Quote
Originally posted by banana
He's lucky we didn't treat him like a sheep!

Or an alter-boy

-Sik
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Post by: Ripsnort on December 16, 2003, 12:11:47 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Sikboy
Or an alter-boy

-Sik

:eek:
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Post by: midnight Target 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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Post by: BEVO 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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Post by: gofaster on December 16, 2003, 12:24:50 PM: Quote
Originally posted by slimm50
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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Post by: Eagler on December 16, 2003, 12:36:38 PM: Quote
Originally posted by midnight Target
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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Post by: maslo on December 16, 2003, 12:37:51 PM: Quote
Originally posted by muckmaw
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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Post by: muckmaw on December 16, 2003, 12:51:53 PM: Whoever flips the circuit breaker, I suppose.
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Post by: Mini D on December 16, 2003, 01:13:48 PM: I thought the footage of the "inspection" was tasteless too.

MiniD
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Post by: mrblack on December 16, 2003, 01:33:42 PM: Too bad they did not show the rectal exam :D
Who gives a watermelon if It imbarassed the jerk.

With all the people he has killed he Is lucky Americans found him and not the Kurds.
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Post by: miko2d on December 16, 2003, 01:42:18 PM: Err, didn't our president once announce that showing footage of the POWs or even their corpses in less than dignified way is a mistreatment of prisoners, violation of the laws of war and a war crime? :rolleyes:

miko
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Post by: Nilsen on December 16, 2003, 01:58:52 PM: Religion is the mother of all fuc***s and can be blamed directly or indirectly (as an excuse for powerhungry mf like Saddam) for most wars.

Our goverments uses it, Bush uses it, Israel, the palestines, CARDINALS etc...etc...

my 0.00002$ on religion :D
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Post by: miko2d on December 16, 2003, 02:03:57 PM: Nilsen10: Religion ... can be blamed directly or indirectly (as an excuse for powerhungry mf like Saddam) for most wars.

Yes, and it is blamed for wars often. But in most cases it's BS and a cover for politics which are the real cause of the conflict.

miko
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Post by: Nilsen on December 16, 2003, 02:22:10 PM: yup miko, thats what i mean...

bottom line is that religion is somehow "involved"