No love lost between Saddam, son

Associated Press ^ | April 14, 2003 | Associated Press Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

No love lost between Saddam, son

04/14/2003

Associated Press

The looted palace of Saddam Hussein's older son, Uday, reveals a heart hardened against his father.

"My father wants to go down in history, but his heart is finished from any kindness," Uday wrote in an undated letter. "I have nothing in my heart toward my father, not any love or kindness. I don't know if he listens even to himself anymore."

Looters ransacked the home in the Baghdad suburb of Karada but left ample evidence of the 39-year-old Uday's extravagance.

The remains of a steel safe, cut open with a welding torch, lie in the basement. Mixed with the gray ash are burned corners of U.S. $100 and $50 bills. "He used those to light his cigars," a neighbor said.

After committing a murder, Uday had a falling out with his father, was jailed and lost his place as the chosen successor.

That role fell to his brother, Qusay, the head of Iraq's secret police agency and the Republican Guard.

In a 1990 letter, Uday wrote that his father planned to create a greater Iraq that included Kuwait and other areas.

He also wrote to an uncle in 1990: "It is difficult being in the family of Hussein. People want to kill us."

Since a U.S. jet dropped bunker-busting bombs on a building where Saddam Hussein and his sons were believed to be meeting last week, there has been no public sign of the family.

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[MeekOneGOP]

What a sad story. I'm broken up.
< /sarcasm >

[Sonny M]

When one looks over the middle east, its very easy to convert and want to become a pro abortion supporter, in fact, I wish every muslim country had abortion, and the women there would activley use there "reproductive rights".

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[MeekOneGOP]

The title reminded me of a sit-com . . .

[Dog]

Pass the tissues.....you can email UDAY ....at udaysaddamhussein@yahoo.com

Tell him you care...LOL!

[Savage Beast]

"Evil is the ultimate stupidity."

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL !

[agrace]

He also wrote to an uncle in 1990: "It is difficult being in the family of Hussein. People want to kill us."

I'd rather bet that has a bit more to do with your raping young girls, beating up athletes and shooting rivals, genius.

[Mitchell]

"My father wants to go down in history, but his heart is finished from any kindness," Uday wrote in an undated letter. "I have nothing in my heart toward my father, not any love or kindness. I don't know if he listens even to himself anymore."

Do you really think that someone is just holding onto anthrax for Saddam, waiting for his orders? Who could Saddam have complete trust in? Not his own son. Not Gen. al-Saadi. Not the Republican Guard generals whose military advice he rejected, condemning them to ignominious loss. There's nobody.

If Saddam did own the anthrax at one time, he no longer does. Ownership would have passed onto somebody else.

Possession is 9/10 of the law. In this case, the proportion is even higher.

[Mitchell]

I wrote: If Saddam did own the anthrax at one time, he no longer does. Ownership would have passed onto somebody else.

I should have made clear that this presupposes that Saddam is not at large somewhere. It's possible that he's still in possession of WMD, if he's on the lam, leading a small group of people who view their survival as inextricably intertwined.