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| Daughter: Saddam ’had a big heart’ |
| 2003-08-02 |
| AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) -- With tears in their eyes, Saddam Hussein’s two oldest daughters said Friday that they still love their father but wouldn’t talk about his role in the deaths of their husbands in 1996. Such a wonderful father but he sucked as father in law. "He was a very good father, loving, had a big heart, loved his daughters, sons, grandchildren," Raghad said. "He was the one we always go to." He gassed Kurdish kids, let children in Basra starve to death, sent teen boys into battle against Iran as cannon fodder but apart from that... Recently, the sisters and their nine children fled to Amman, where they were welcomed as guests of King Abdullah II. In 1995, the sisters and their husbands -- who were brothers -- were welcomed by Abdullah’s father, King Hussein. Ahhh the time honored warm tradition of Arab hospitality... Six months after they defected, they were lured back to Iraq by when Saddam promised forgiveness. Once they arrived, the men were killed in a shootout in a house near Baghdad. The shootout was believed to have been organized by Rana and Raghad’s brothers, Uday and Qusay, at their father’s request. We might be interested in the daughter’s role in that "luring" as well? The sisters declined to describe any angry feelings they might have against their father for leaving them widows. Oh come, daddies have bad moments from time to time, no biggie. "I hope we can start a new life with our kids and each other," Raghad said. "Now I can feel I’m home." I bet you can if daddy told you how to access his billions in Swiss bank accounts. And there is always more room in the house for family members. Earlier Friday, Raghad said her father’s regime collapsed because people close to him betrayed him, and she expressed negative feelings for Saddam. "Unfortunately, people who my father trusted absolutely have failed him, have betrayed him," she told the Arabic-language network Al Arabiya. Without naming names, she said her father also felt he had been sold out. Has happened to less bloody dictators. "Even if I don’t like him, in human terms, we should not betray a person. It is not in the Arab honor," she said. You better brush up your knowledge of 14 centuries of Arab history. It’s a long long tale of betrayals. |
| Posted by:True German Ally |
| #6 Yeah, so ol' Soddy's "big heart" is the explanation behind all those mass graves found in Iraq so far, is it? Uhhh, no. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-8-2 1:54:07 PM |
| #5 Hmmm...with all that facial hair, how can we be sure these are really his "daughters?" |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-8-2 12:09:51 PM |
| #4 "He ...had a big heart..." Hopefully, we'll see it on a stick. Soon. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-8-2 11:00:03 AM |
| #3 Did Jordan ask for permission? maybe some Iraqi people would rather eliminate all of Saddam's family. I can't imagine any of them "Sodom daughters" being innocent. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2003-8-2 9:46:31 AM |
| #2 Remember the Saddam tape, before this last one, where he says that if he had a 100 sons, he'd send them all out to be martyred like Uday and Qusay? I heard that thinking, Yeesh, I thought my dad was bad. |
| Posted by: Ben 2003-8-2 8:22:41 AM |
| #1 "they still love their father but wouldn’t talk about his role in the deaths of their husbands" Oh, them. Husbands. They were mere tools - useful only because they allowed us to fulfill our roles as Muslim Baby (Milk?) Factories - he was Daddy! "she said her father also felt he had been sold out" And exactly when did he tell you that, ma'am? And you were where, precisely? "Even if I don’t like him, in human terms, we should not betray a person. It is not in the Arab honor," she said. One could easily conclude the Arab Honor Cupboard is bare, in fact. |
| Posted by: PD 2003-8-2 8:19:42 AM |