Military nurse who cared for Saddam

MrBrian
MrBrian Posts: 2,672
edited January 2007 in A Moving Train
Anyone see this guy's interview on CNN? It looks like he was about to cry when talking about saddams execution.

It looks like they became good friends.
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A colonel told Ellis: "Saddam Hussein cannot die in U.S. custody. You do whatever you have to do to keep him alive," the newspaper reported.

"That was my job: to keep him alive and healthy so they could kill him at a later date," said Ellis, 56, an operating room nurse at St. Joseph Health Center in St. Charles, Missouri.

"I knew all along what they were going to do. This went against my grain as a nurse, but as a soldier -- well, that was my job," said Ellis.

During his tenure at the prison, Ellis said that he checked in on Saddam regularly and got to know him.

When Saddam was allowed outside for a short time, he fed birds bits of bread that he had saved from his meals and watered some weeds.
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  • The Waiting Trophy Man
    The Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    MrBrian wrote:
    Anyone see this guy's interview on CNN? It looks like he was about to cry when talking about saddams execution. It looks like they became good friends.

    dick cheney has good friends, too. they will shed tears when he dies, too. go figure.
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  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    aBoxOfFear wrote:
    dick cheney has good friends, too. they will shed tears when he dies, too. go figure.

    Are you comparing Saddam to dick cheney?
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,263
    MrBrian wrote:
    Are you comparing Saddam to dick cheney?
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    Well, the poster is in his box of fear that liberals and Eddie preach and trick people with, so what else is he supposed to think? Remember when the liberals scared us all into thinking the Republicans would steal the 2006 election? That was a good one.
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    I dunno about any of that, i'm just trying to show that at the end of the day, as bad as saddam was, he was still a human.

    I'm meeting people in person all talking about how great it is that he was hung, passing the video along. Justice was not done, he did not even have a fair trial. It was as scripted as a hollywood movie. How is having a corrupt court system good for iraqis? we should be sad that the US backed court system in iraq is so corrupt, as corrupt now as it was under hussein, and people cheer "justice was done!"
  • PaperPlates
    PaperPlates Posts: 1,745
    How exactly was his trial unfair?
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  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    MrBrian wrote:
    I dunno about any of that, i'm just trying to show that at the end of the day, as bad as saddam was, he was still a human.

    I'm meeting people in person all talking about how great it is that he was hung, passing the video along. Justice was not done, he did not even have a fair trial. It was as scripted as a hollywood movie. How is having a corrupt court system good for iraqis? we should be sad that the US backed court system in iraq is so corrupt, as corrupt now as it was under hussein, and people cheer "justice was done!"

    Figures the only thing muslims can do right is kill someone real quickly.
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  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    PaperPlates wrote:
    How exactly was his trial unfair?

    Well to start off with, replacing a judge in the middle of a trial. Then...

    http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Saddam-trial-unfair-rights-group/2006/11/20/1163871307599.html

    http://kutv.com/topstories/topstories_story_324120850.html
  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    MrBrian wrote:
    Well to start off with, replacing a judge in the middle of a trial. Then...

    http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Saddam-trial-unfair-rights-group/2006/11/20/1163871307599.html

    http://kutv.com/topstories/topstories_story_324120850.html

    Didnt they kill the judges family, which is why he was replaced?
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  • PaperPlates
    PaperPlates Posts: 1,745
    MrBrian wrote:
    Well to start off with, replacing a judge in the middle of a trial. Then...

    http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Saddam-trial-unfair-rights-group/2006/11/20/1163871307599.html

    http://kutv.com/topstories/topstories_story_324120850.html


    Sadamm and his lawyers intentionally made that trial into a circus. He got what was fair, trust me.
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  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    miller8966 wrote:
    Didnt they kill the judges family, which is why he was replaced?


    He was replaced because they said that he was "too soft" on hussein. well that was one of the reasons anyway.
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    PaperPlates wrote:
    Sadamm and his lawyers intentionally made that trial into a circus. He got what was fair, trust me.

    I'd like to trust you my friend, but from what I can see, the facts say otherwise. This according to human rights watch.
  • PaperPlates
    PaperPlates Posts: 1,745
    MrBrian wrote:
    I'd like to trust you my friend, but from what I can see, the facts say otherwise. This according to human rights watch.

    Yeah, another organization 100% free of agenda or bias. Like any other organization run by humans. You trust the UN too, don't you? :p
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  • Drop the Leash
    Drop the Leash Posts: 220
    fair trial? what was saddams defense? we know what he did and he wasnt ashamed to admit it, he got what was coming to him end of story.....so the moral is you can commit genacide but if you feed birds we should let you off
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  • sponger
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    On an interpersonal level, dictators are known to be very charming people. Mafia bosses are known to be the same way....and well, uhm, politicians too..go figure.
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  • PaperPlates
    PaperPlates Posts: 1,745
    Drop the Leash wrote:
    fair trial? what was saddams defense? we know what he did and he wasnt ashamed to admit it, he got what was coming to him end of story.....so the moral is you can commit genacide but if you feed birds we should let you off

    Tyrannical mass-murdering dictators are people too. ;)
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  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    Drop the Leash wrote:
    fair trial? what was saddams defense? we know what he did and he wasnt ashamed to admit it, he got what was coming to him end of story.....so the moral is you can commit genacide but if you feed birds we should let you off

    If revenge is the basis for this new iraq, I don't see how things will ever get better.

    I never said let him off, but the only moral of this story that I can see now is that you can commit genocide you get hung, unless you are an american president.

    is it not sad that they could not even find him guilty of the mass graves? not that the 148 dead was a small number. why cut it short? not like killing him now was gonna end the killing.
  • Drop the Leash
    Drop the Leash Posts: 220
    MrBrian wrote:
    If revenge is the bases for this new iraq, I don't see how things will ever get better.

    I never said let him off, but the only moral of this story that I can see now is that you can commit genocide you get hung, unless you are an american president.

    is it not sad that they could not even find him guilty of the mass graves? not that the 148 dead was a small number. why cut it short? not like killing him now was gonna end the killing.


    im not a bush fan but saying he commited genocide is just dumb
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  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    Drop the Leash wrote:
    im not a bush fan but saying he commited genocide is just dumb

    How about mass killing? major destruction of innocent lives? I dunno, what else do you wanna call so many thousands of innocent people lost on his orders?

    and any exucse about how America does not target innocent lives does not mean much, what does one expect to happen when dropping a 5 ton bomb? or chemical weapons on villages? just label them as a casualty of war so you may sleep better.
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    MrBrian wrote:
    If revenge is the basis for this new iraq, I don't see how things will ever get better.

    I never said let him off, but the only moral of this story that I can see now is that you can commit genocide you get hanged, unless you are an american president.

    not like killing him now was gonna end the killing.

    All very good points. (with typo corrections).:)
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  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    gue_barium wrote:
    All very good points. (with typo corrections).:)

    hehe, thanks. very kind of you.

    I noticed them after but was too lazy for corrections. I figured my point would still be made.

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