Jun 20, 2005 12:59
SADDAM ON HOLDING GRUDGES
“Towards the end he was saying that he doesn’t hold any hard feelings and he just wanted to talk to Bush, to make friends with him,” O’Shea, of Minooka, Pa
SADDAM ON FINDING A GOOD WOMAN
O’Shea said when he told him he was not married, Saddam “started telling me what to do.” “He was like, ‘you gotta find a good woman. Not too smart, not too dumb. Not too old, not too young. One that can cook and clean.”’
Then he smiled, made what O’Shea interpreted as a “spanking” gesture, laughed and went back to washing his clothes in the sink.
SADDAM HUSSEN EATS LIKE ME
For a time his favorite food was Cheetos, and when those ran out, Saddam would “get grumpy,” the story says. One day the guards substituted Doritos corn chips, and Saddam forgot about Cheetos. “He’d eat a family size bag of Doritos in 10 minutes,” Dawson says.
"That's all he talked about, that's all he wanted to eat after that," O'Shea told NBC's "Today" show.
SADDAM ON SHOCK AND AWE
Saddam told his guards that when the Americans invaded Iraq in March 2003, he “tried to flee in a taxicab as the tanks were rolling in,” and the U.S. planes attacked the palace to which he intended to escape rather than the one he was in, injuring some of his bodyguards.
“But then he started laughing,” recalls Reese. “He goes, ‘America, they dumb. They bomb wrong palace.”’
SADDAM ON PAST U.S. PRESIDENTS
Interviewed in GQ magazine’s July issue, the men said Saddam greatly admires President Reagan and thought President Clinton was “OK,” but had harsh words for both President Bushes, each of whom went to war against him.
“The Bush father, son, no good,”
we know Saddam, we know