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Joerg Haider: "US may have arrested Saddam's double" ["capture is a scam"; Israel is a dictatorship]
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting News Network ^ | 2003/12/17

Posted on 12/17/2003 4:10:52 AM PST by yonif

Vienna, Dec 17 - US troops may have arrested a double of Saddam Hussein and DNA testing does not prove conclusively that they have captured the Iraqi dictator, Austrian Freedom Party ex-leader Joerg Haider said late Tuesday.

Calling the capture "slapstick" and a "real scam", Haider told national ORF television: "This may be one of his many doubles."

"The saliva tests they did mean nothing if they did not have earlier specimens to which they could compare it," the former leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party added.

Haider visited Saddam in Baghdad in February 2002 and caused a stir on eve of the Iraq war when he said he was prepared to offer the Iraqi leader shelter.

On Tuesday he said he felt that morally there was little difference between Saddam and US President George W. Bush.

"I would be hard-pressed to choose between the two. Both have acted at odds with international law, committed human rights abuses. The one has the good luck to lead a superpower ... while the other was just a poor dictator.

Haider also said that Saddam was not the worst dictator in the world, or in the Middle East.

"In comparison with other dictators from China, and to Israel I have to say, it is difficult for me to see what the differences is."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: austria; freedomparty; haider; iraq; neonazi; rumor; waronterrorism
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1 posted on 12/17/2003 4:10:53 AM PST by yonif
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To: SJackson; Yehuda; Nachum; Paved Paradise; Thinkin' Gal; Bobby777; adam_az; Alouette; IFly4Him; ...
From Haaretz:

Joerg Haider slammed by fellow Austrian politicians for comparing Bush to Saddam, calling Israel a `dictatorship`

2 posted on 12/17/2003 4:11:17 AM PST by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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To: yonif
It would be kinder to his mother to ignore this.
3 posted on 12/17/2003 4:12:48 AM PST by Grut
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To: yonif

The WH has Bin Laden too, don't ca know.

4 posted on 12/17/2003 4:13:59 AM PST by OXENinFLA ( I find it very interesting that when the heat got on, you dug yourself a hole and you crawled in it)
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To: yonif
Who says Hitler died in a bunker?
5 posted on 12/17/2003 4:15:03 AM PST by Tabi Katz
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To: yonif
We have in our possession nearly 400 lbs of Hussein Family DNA. We should be able to get a match from that.
6 posted on 12/17/2003 4:15:50 AM PST by Ispy4u
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To: yonif

Joerg Haider is the Austrian version of Howard Dean. Whenever you think of Howard, think of what he has in common with Haider. It all comes donw to one thing in common shared by both men:

All beer hall, no Putsch.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

7 posted on 12/17/2003 4:16:20 AM PST by section9 (Major Kusanagi says, "Click on my pic and read my blog, or eat lead!")
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To: yonif
what the differences is

I guess we should forgive his poor grammar since English isn't his native language,
but his stupidty are another manner entirely.

8 posted on 12/17/2003 4:17:32 AM PST by ASA Vet ("Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know." (I'm in the 2nd group ;-)
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To: F14 Pilot; nuconvert; DoctorZIn
ping
9 posted on 12/17/2003 4:21:38 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife ("Your joy is your sorrow unmasked." --- GIBRAN)
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To: yonif
On Tuesday he said he felt that morally there was little difference between Saddam and US President George W. Bush.

"I would be hard-pressed to choose between the two. Both have acted at odds with international law, committed human rights abuses. The one has the good luck to lead a superpower ... while the other was just a poor dictator.

No difference, huh? Maybe we should even things up between them, huh? Maybe get rid of the US supply of nerve agent on Iran? Then you could make a more accurate comparison...

Haider also said that Saddam was not the worst dictator in the world, or in the Middle East.

"In comparison with other dictators from China, and to Israel I have to say, it is difficult for me to see what the differences is."

Iran's dictatorship is easily in the top 10. As far as Israel's "dictatorship," yup... That's what they've got... I guess they just keep magicly changing dictators every few years.

BONEHEADS!!!

Mark

10 posted on 12/17/2003 4:26:48 AM PST by MarkL (Dammit Vermile!!!! I can't take any more of these close games! Chiefs 12-2!!! Woooo Hoooo!!!)
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To: yonif
"The saliva tests they did mean nothing if they did not have earlier specimens to which they could compare it," the former leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party added.

They did have those earlier samples that they got from Dan Rather's blue dress.

11 posted on 12/17/2003 4:31:36 AM PST by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: ASA Vet
I'm surprised someone as anti-american as Haider was kicked kicked out of office by the EU.
12 posted on 12/17/2003 4:31:52 AM PST by Democratshavenobrains
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To: Ispy4u
We have in our possession nearly 400 lbs of Hussein Family DNA.

Not to mention the several hundred pounds residing in Jordan, which was no doubt made available for sampling.

13 posted on 12/17/2003 4:31:53 AM PST by angkor
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To: yonif
Umm .... sorry to break this, Jorg, but for me it was enough to look at the guy's face and I knew it was Saddam. You don't seem to have a very good memory for your buddies' faces!
14 posted on 12/17/2003 4:32:40 AM PST by Smile-n-Win (Compassion for your enemies is a betrayal of your friends.)
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To: Democratshavenobrains
I'm surprised someone as anti-american as Haider was kicked kicked out of office by the EU.

It's all about appearances. The EU won't have dealings with anyone who's openly anti-Semitic.

15 posted on 12/17/2003 4:35:50 AM PST by Smile-n-Win (Compassion for your enemies is a betrayal of your friends.)
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To: angkor
I'm going to go out on a limb and say, it's him.

I know there's still the indescribable odds 1 to (make up the largest number you can think of here) that one of Saddam's doubles was also a genetic match. NOT!!!!
16 posted on 12/17/2003 4:37:49 AM PST by Ispy4u
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To: Pan_Yans Wife; yonif
Thanks for posting~!
17 posted on 12/17/2003 4:40:56 AM PST by F14 Pilot (A wise man changes his mind, a fool never does.)
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To: yonif
Heil Haider! What a putz. The Austrians don't really learn, do they? The good ones leave and come to the US to become governators!
18 posted on 12/17/2003 4:42:26 AM PST by Cronos (W2004)
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To: yonif
"The saliva tests they did mean nothing if they did not have earlier specimens to which they could compare it," the former leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party added.

We have Uday and Qusay's corpses... unless they are both doubles as well, and their father is one of Saddam's doubles.

19 posted on 12/17/2003 4:54:38 AM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: yonif
The saliva tests they did mean nothing if they did not have earlier specimens to which they could compare it,"

Bwahahahahahahahaha......there all retared.........Bwahahahahahahahaha. Ding bat! we still have a couple slices of Uday & Qusay somewhere back in the fridg. These guys shouldn't listen to the democrats so much.

20 posted on 12/17/2003 5:17:01 AM PST by tbpiper
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