# Saddam tortured! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 22, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862 "2005-12-22T21:16:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862/21 "2005-12-23T07:56:43Z")
If there hadn’t been people pressing the US to torture, and elements of the US leadership appearing to be favourable to torture, it would be a lot easier to peg Saddam as a liar now… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862/22 "2005-12-23T12:00:06Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > I hear they are thinking of finally burying the old boy. Naw, they’re just going to stick a wick in his nose and let him burn down. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862/23 "2005-12-23T13:08:32Z")
> [@](#): > > by **Frank** > Well, of course. Did I give the impression I think he is innocent? Well, you sounded indignant. Frankly (ba-dum-kssh!) I would like to see a few more “show” trials in this world along similar veins. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862/24 "2005-12-23T13:09:11Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > If there hadn’t been people pressing the US to torture, and elements of the US leadership appearing to be favourable to torture, it would be a lot easier to peg Saddam as a liar now… How much easier could it possibly be? Daniel ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862/25 "2005-12-23T13:47:09Z")
He’s right, sorta. Not being the Lord High Muck any more, not having evrybody kowtowing at your feet, not being able to off a guy simply because you don’t like the way he ties his laces, these things _are_ torture for Saddam! ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862/26 "2005-12-28T18:32:07Z")
My favorite part of the whole ordeal was this: (paraphrased) Prosecutor: If you don’t like the way you are being handled by the Americans, we’ll just turn you over to the Iraqi Security Forces. Saddam: Um. No thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862/27 "2005-12-28T19:53:41Z")
“Mr. Hussein, in order to ensure your personal safety we are installing this 24 hour surveillance web-cam in your cell…” WOOOOOO! Saddam-cam! ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862/28 "2005-12-28T22:22:22Z")
And in order to show you how much we really love you, we serve you this special Christmas left-over dish: Saddam-Ham! ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862/29 "2005-12-28T22:24:11Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > “Mr. Hussein, in order to ensure your personal safety we are installing this 24 hour surveillance web-cam in your cell…” > > WOOOOOO! Saddam-cam! That is just wrong on so many levels. And yet, scarier still is the thought that somewhere, someone will be turned on by that… ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862/30 "2005-12-28T22:28:47Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > I can’t think of any dictators who are very attractive come to think of it…alive or dead. Lenin perhaps in an undead sort of way I suppose…if you leave aside the million plus dead of course. Some of them are worse than others looks wise though…imagine if Lil’ Kimmy decided to show us HIS corpulent ‘marks’ for instance. Or…_shudder_…Kadaffi (or how ever the hell he spells his name this week). Yikes! :eek: > > -XT Stalin was kinda hot in a murderous-moustache kind of way. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862/31 "2005-12-28T22:31:37Z")
> [@smiling bandit](#): > > Well, you sounded indignant. Heavens, no. I said pre-ordained because a) he’s guilty, and, b) there are no political reasons for him to be found not guilty. I’m just going to enjoy the show. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862/32 "2005-12-29T17:39:03Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Stalin was kinda hot in a murderous-moustache kind of way. Just sayin’. :eek: !! -XT ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862/33 "2005-12-29T18:10:16Z")
[“In another outburst today, Saddam Hussein said Americans could never torture as good as he can.”](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10616746/site/newsweek/) > [@](#): > > “Toppling my government, that was the easy part,” Saddam told the court. “But as for maintaining the high standards of torture that the Iraqi people grew accustomed to under my regime? Clearly, there was no plan or strategy for doing that.” > [@](#): > > “We don’t do torture,” Rumsfeld said. “Having said that, when we do torture, we do it in a way that is second to none.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-tortured/336862.md?page=1)