Saddam feared getting AIDS in prison

Tuesday 06th May, 04:49 AM JST

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super delegate at 10:15 AM JST - 6th May

Pretty revolting piece.

Makes you wonder what Saddam the Arab lion, the modern Saladin,
Kofi and the Gang's Sugar Daddy did to get a bag of Doritos while locked up in the pokey.
motown at 12:23 PM JST - 6th May

What strikes me from this story is what an ignoramous the man was.
skipthesong at 05:37 PM JST - 6th May

His culture deems like this fear worthy.. very ~phobic on all angles.
SuperLib at 07:28 PM JST - 6th May

It's just hard to believe that someone in his position was unaware that you can't get aids from handling laundry...
super delegate at 11:17 PM JST - 6th May

"Saddam feared getting AIDS in prison"

Arafat died of AIDS.

Was Saddam worried his image as the Arab Strongman would suffer if he was perceived as having contracted AIDS in prison rather than from some UN nancy boy?
bebert at 11:28 PM JST - 6th May

At least he died a more dignified death than Ariel Sharon (now a comatose poop machine).

“But our language (Arabic) is more beautiful and deeper.”

Uh, I don't think so. French and Japanese may be beautiful languages, but Arabic belongs at the bottom along with German and Hebrew.
M_Lammerse at 11:39 PM JST - 6th May

Don't know what is more rediculous, believing that he could get aids in prison or that he was related to the 9/11 attack or was in the possession of nuclear weapons. Well at least such kind of news is cooling off the US fiasco in Iraq for again a day.
usaexpat at 11:42 PM JST - 6th May

Idiotic that getting a VD was at the top of his list of concerns but oh well. As for getting what he deserved I think they should have given him his country back with some conditions. Apparently someone thought that propping up Malicki who refuses to help himself was better. No I see no paralells between Iraq and Vietnam at all.....
bebert at 12:03 AM JST - 7th May

Good point M.L., who is the bigger fool? Saddam, thinking he can get V.D. from a clothesline or the American people for thinking Iraq was a threat to them?
WhiteHawk at 01:36 AM JST - 7th May

motown:

What strikes me from this story is what an ignoramous the man was.

Iraq (under Saddam) wasn't exactly a hotbed of education, or known for free-flowing information.
adaydream at 01:49 AM JST - 7th May

But under Saddam, women could go to school. The Iraqi woman was allowed to uncover their bodies from the burka. They were freer in Iraq than most other countries in the Middle East.

Saddam is dead. george bush's revenge was met.

Sure Saddam hurt a lot of people, but it takes a real ignoramous to kill 100s of 1000s of people and ruin another country for your own personal revenge.
WhiteHawk at 05:29 AM JST - 7th May

Sure Saddam hurt a lot of people, but it takes a real ignoramous to kill 100s of 1000s of people and ruin another country for your own personal revenge.

Pardon me while I recover from the irony of that statement.
Sarge at 03:09 PM JST - 7th May

"it takes a real ignoramous to kill 100s of 1000s of people and ruin another country"

Or, it takes a man with vision to liberate a country and give those people a shot at running their own country, eh?
SuperLib at 05:35 PM JST - 7th May

It's still just astounding to me that Saddam could know so little about AIDS. I know I've said that already, but returning to this thread again launched me into a new round of amazement. How can someone in his position, the man ultimately responsible for the health care of his entire country, know absolutely nothing about the most famous disease of the last 20 years?
Sarge at 05:39 PM JST - 7th May

SuperLib - Saddam was just a harmless old coot.