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Report: Saddam Feared Getting 'Venereal Diseases' From U.S. Guards
foxnews.com ^
| May 05, 2008
| AP
Posted on 05/05/2008 12:33:33 PM PDT by RDTF
CAIRO, Egypt — Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or some other venereal disease during his U.S.-supervised captivity, according to excerpts of his prison writings published in a leading Arab newspaper Monday.
The London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat published excerpts of what it described as Saddam's prison dairies which it said its correspondent obtained from U.S. authorities.
The U.S. military confirmed that pages of Saddam's writings have been released.
When the former Iraqi leader found out that his U.S. military guards were also using his laundry line to dry clothes, he wrote that he demanded they stop.
"I explained to them that they are young and they could have young people's diseases," Saddam wrote. "My main concern was to not catch a venereal disease, an HIV disease, in this place." He said that some of the soldiers ignored his request.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: neckstretchingvsvd; saddambarackhussein
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guess he didn't know that would have made them undeployable
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:33:33 PM PDT
by
RDTF
To: RDTF
He said that some of the soldiers ignored his request. Oh, I am sure they did more than that...
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:35:28 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: RDTF
He said that some of the soldiers ignored his request. Oh, I am sure they did more than that...
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:35:31 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: RDTF
“Young people’s Disease.”
As opposed to the “Gay Disease”
Or the “French Disease”
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:35:40 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: RDTF
The amount and absurdity of urban myths believed in the Arab world about Western societies is staggering.
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:35:52 PM PDT
by
contemplator
(Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
To: RDTF
Saddam. What do you care anyway. You were going to die shortly.
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:36:06 PM PDT
by
70th Division
(If we lose the Republic we have lost it all.)
To: RDTF
You can get VD from a dorito?
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:36:11 PM PDT
by
Uncledave
(Journalists resent bloggers for the same reason prostitutes resent nymphomaniacs)
To: RDTF
He should have been more concerned with dying of a severe neck injury than the clap.
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:36:51 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
((Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud))
To: RDTF
The leader of a nation thought that sharing a clothesline could give him a STD??
I think he should have been worrying about getting ropeburn and not a clothesline myself.
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:36:59 PM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: RDTF
Then why did Saddam allow Code Pink to travel to Iraq as guests of his government?
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:37:09 PM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
To: RDTF
Saddam already had aids...
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:37:18 PM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
To: RDTF
Always a whiner, Saddam later complained about a strange tightening in his throat.
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:37:59 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Average White Conservative)
To: Uncledave
You can get VD from a dorito? Don't eat a soggy Dorito...
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:37:59 PM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
To: Vigilanteman
He should have been more concerned with dying of a severe neck injury than the clap. When he died, the first thing I did was clap.
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:39:05 PM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
To: evets
Why was Saddam embracing Ringo?
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:40:19 PM PDT
by
gathersnomoss
(General George Patton had it right.)
To: RDTF
I heard that ths guy was paranoid of germs. He would never shakehands with the common folk.
But, hee hee, he doesn’t have to worry about diseases anymore...
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:40:45 PM PDT
by
Larebil
(My name is liberal backwards, since they backwards thinking)
To: RDTF
I hope Saddam is getting the pineapple treatment too.
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:41:15 PM PDT
by
anymouse
To: RDTF
I guess it’s one of those things like how liars never trust anyone because they figure everyone is like them :-)
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:43:02 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
(How is inflicting pain and death on an innocent, helpless human being for profit, moral?)
To: RDTF; All
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:44:05 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
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posted on
05/05/2008 12:45:45 PM PDT
by
kcvl
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