# Saddam treated poorly by U.S. captors? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 16, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-treated-poorly-by-u-s-captors/219357 "2003-12-16T18:14:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hammerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@hammerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammerbach)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-treated-poorly-by-u-s-captors/219357/21 "2003-12-17T05:55:05Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Wesley Clark \* > \*\* > …Saddams beard was also shaven off (most likely w/o his consent) …_\* Wait a minute… I viewed the beard being gone as a sign that he had been given shaving supplies to help him clean up and regain a little dignity. I don’t remember him ever sporting a bush like that before. . . Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![kp\_72110](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kp\_72110](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kp_72110)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-treated-poorly-by-u-s-captors/219357/22 "2003-12-17T12:18:23Z")
I can only hope it’s much worse then “poorly”. Damn us and our civilized nation. Screw the Geneva Convention. I say put a mans nuts in a pair of vise grips and he tells all. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-treated-poorly-by-u-s-captors/219357/23 "2003-12-17T12:30:10Z")
I really don’t care much about what they do to Saddam, but seeing the naked machinations of propaganda doesn’t give me the warm fuzzies. ---
**Author:** ![mazirian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@mazirian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazirian)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-treated-poorly-by-u-s-captors/219357/24 "2003-12-17T13:13:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hammerbach \* > Wait a minute… I viewed the beard being gone as a sign that he had been given shaving supplies to help him clean up and regain a little dignity. I don’t remember him ever sporting a bush like that before. > . > . > Anyone? They had to make sure he hadn’t any WMDs on him. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-treated-poorly-by-u-s-captors/219357/25 "2003-12-17T14:09:15Z")
My advice: send Saddam of to the Kurds, who will no doubt, receive him with traditional hospitality. Frankly, I don’t give a damn about Saddam…shoot him like the mad dog he is…and hang his bullet-riddled corpse from the nearest lamppost. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-treated-poorly-by-u-s-captors/219357/26 "2003-12-17T14:15:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hammerbach \* > \*\*Wait a minute… I viewed the beard being gone as a sign that he had been given shaving supplies to help him clean up and regain a little dignity. I don’t remember him ever sporting a bush like that before. > . > . > Anyone? \*\* i thought it was so people could see what he looked like without a beard and with a trimmed moustache and hair, similiar to the hair he had before capture so people could compare the captive Saddam to the pre-captive Saddam. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-treated-poorly-by-u-s-captors/219357.md?page=1)