The King Of Torture Had Trouble Sleeping At Night
You know the typical bully. All bluster and then when someone stands up and pops him, it's all running away with the tail between the legs. Apparently that was the exact story behind Saddam Hussein, known for his hideous torture of people whose "crimes" could consist of an offense that in the United States would not even get you a ticket.
The man who would portray himself as a man's man, who happened to have been found cowering in a small hole, without the honor to take his own life and spare himself, and the rest of the world a trial.
He did not take his secrets to the grave, withstanding fierce interrogation, but instead gave it all up: "...A brilliant FBI man, George Piro, was Saddam's sole interrogator. But the Arabic-speaking Lebanese-American agent didn't have to resort to CIA waterboarding techniques to elicit Saddam's confessions of massacring fellow Iraqis. Instead, Piro's now-legendary interrogations relied on another ancient method - conversation..."
Pity him and his treatment:
"...The tyrant and his family, who maintained their 24-year reign over Iraq by torturing and executing thousands, complained that his lockup - believed to be at Baghdad International Airport - was an American-made chamber of horrors.
"My opportunity to sleep in this place is limited and almost scarce," Saddam wrote. "I don't think there is anyone with a sensitive and humanitarian heart who can sleep amidst the screams of the tortured and the many blows of the doors and the squeaking sounds of the chairs."
Saddam whined that his "total hours of sleep did not exceed four to five hours." (
NY Daily News)
When they read of the fact that Saddam Hussein gave it all up by simply being asked, the left will seize on this as a reason why torture is not necessary to obtain information. The problem is that few prisoners are as soft as this "strong dictator"
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