The Crazy: Catch The Wave

This just in: Saddam's lawyers are nuts!

Okay, I know that's not news.

But it is fun to say though.

Ya' think ole' Whacky Ramsey Clark had anything to do with this?

It kinda smells like his blather, don't it?

Lawyer demands probe into Saddam torture claim

AMMAN (Reuters) - Lawyers for Saddam Hussein' have asked his Baghdad court for an independent investigation into claims by the ousted Iraqi leader that he has been tortured by his American captors.

Chief defense lawyer Khalil Dulaimi said on Sunday that Saddam expects mounting psychological and physical abuse to prevent him from properly defending himself in court.

Saddam is on trial for his life in connection with the killing of 148 people in a village
north of Baghdad in the 1980s. He told a court hearing on Thursday he had been
beaten by the Americans, but did not display any marks to the court.

"I have lodged a complaint with the court to investigate the crime against my client and torture against him during and after his arrest," Dulaimi told Reuters in an interview in Amman.

"We have asked for an independent medical team to examine the president to examine the bruises inflicted on him which are still there on his body," said Dulaimi without elaborating.

The White House has already dismissed Saddam's torture claim as preposterous. The trial has been adjourned until January 24.

Saddam expected worse was to come, Dulaimi said.

"The President believes they will intensify their physical and psychological torture, from mishandling to verbal abuse to other tactics, to exhaust him," he said.

"They want to weaken his role in court and so that he cannot use his natural right to defend himself," he added.

In the interest of fairness, that's all, fairness, I must tell you that I was there in Iraq and this reporter is not telling you the whole truth.

I know we've come to expect a certain looseness with the truth from our fouth estate but this is especially egregious.

In the second to last paragraph when they say "The President believes they will intensify their physical and psychological torture, from mishandling to verbal abuse to other tactics, to exhaust him," that wasn't all the former President had to say.

No, he also suggested that the eeevil American troops had taken away his God (or Allah) given rights to Cheezie-poofs.

It ain't pretty folks, the truth never is.

But aren't you glad you know the whole story now?

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