Saddam Hussein: "All 'Izzat Al-Douri ever wanted was to address the Iraqis as their leader, even if just for a few short minutes. Everybody remembers that he once addressed the Iraqi Women's Union without my knowledge. Do you know what I did to him?"Interviewer: "We don't know. Tell us"...
Saddam Hussein: "The first thing I did when they brought him was to spit in his face."
Interviewer: "Why?"
Saddam Hussein: "I said to him: 'You despicable man, I spit on your owl's face. How do you address these glorious women without me knowing about it?'"
HEY! I like owls!
| "I'm the one who gets the babes around here!" |
"The only one who makes speeches in Iraq is the
| "I am the head cheese around here! You are gorgonzola, at best!" |
My! THEY were certainly close buddies! [/SARCASM]
| Wotta sweet guy. |
Saddam Hussein: "I didn't hear the speech, because I'm in prison."
"Noone tells me anything!"
"Even though I am in prison, I don't allow anyone to speak on my behalf, so long as I live. I am still the president."See picture at left.
| "They're gonna call him Izzy No-Tongue soon's my hard boyz hear about it!" |
| "I ain't a-scared o' nuttin'!" |
Saddam Hussein: "That's a good question. You watch the court sessions. How many sessions have there been so far? Fifteen sessions?"
Interviewer: "Seventeen."
Saddam Hussein: "I give a speech at every single session. If I don't give speeches, I get heartburn.
| "... or maybe it's the chili. I'm not sure..." |
| "The man's an absolute loon!... Ummm... Unlike me." |
Sounding like Hitler in his final days, methinks.
Interviewer: "This reminds me that in one of your speeches, you said that you would leave Iraq a country without a people."
Saddam Hussein: "What is the people worth without Saddam Hussein?! What is it worth? Iraq is entirely Saddam Hussein. 'Long live Iraq' means 'long live Saddam Hussein.' What is Iraq worth without Saddam Hussein?"A great deal.
Interviewer: "You keep on with those slogans? You still cling to them..."
Saddam Hussein: "I was brought up on it. How do you want me to go back on this? Iraqis hear these things about me as soon as they come out of their mothers' wombs. I repeat: Iraq without Saddam Hussein isn't worth two bits. Therefore, it will make me happy if Iraq turns into ashes. I call to punish 'Izzat Al-Duri, because he burned my heart."
What, fried the muscle!?
| I'm guessing it was the chili. |
Saddam Hussein: "He gave a speech without me knowing it. The punishment that I want for him is to cut off his tongue and ears."
I guess being a control freak comes with the territory when you're a tyrant.
Interviewer: "Why cutting off his tongue and ears?"
Saddam Hussein: "To make him the same as all the renegades whose tongues and ears I cut off. And if 'Izzat Al-Duri continues giving speeches in sign language, like the deaf do, I demand that his hands be cut off. And so on and so forth, until 'Izzat Al-Duri is finished, and we get rid of this degenerate."
| There's a operetta in here somewhere... |