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Kurd to Saddam: "Congratulations! You Are in a Cage."

Without getting into whether it's "worth" all the blood that's been spent over the past three years, I do think it's pretty great that such a thing as this can happen (Los Angeles Times).

A Kurdish villager mocked Saddam Hussein in court Tuesday as the man recalled the disappearance of his relatives during a 1980s military campaign in northern Iraq.

"Congratulations! You are in a cage," said the witness, Ghafour Hassan Abdullah, addressing Hussein and his six codefendants seated behind metal grates in the courtroom.

Worth reading also for the nutball utterances of the former dictator himself. ("When I am right I cannot be scared, and I don't think there is a power on Earth that can shake even one hair of my mustache." etc. etc.)

Posted by Julian Brookes on 09/13/06 at 2:05 PM | E-mail | Print



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What's funny is how similar quotes from Hussein and Bush really are, when you line them up: all bluster and posturing, lots of jingoism and hyperbole, little actual substance.

Posted by: Tim J. on 09/13/06 at 3:18 PM

Tim, that's such a good observation. I mean, they both sit squarely in that part of my brain labeled 'Assholes', but you're right, even their prose style [yes, they do have one - the style of a tyrant] are similar.

Posted by: paul miller on 09/13/06 at 3:56 PM

That's great. It's unfortunate that that the gentelmen couldn't also say "Congratulations! You are in a cage, and I have a gun."

Posted by: Xanthippas on 09/14/06 at 7:36 AM

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