Saddam tells judge to ‘go (bleep) yourself’
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By John Breneman
Saddam Hussein’s defense team unveiled a new legal tactic
today as the rowdy dictator amended his plea to not guilty
by reason of Tourette’s Syndrome.
"Down with America!" yelled Hussein, who added
"Kiss my mustard gas, you (bleeping) piece of Shiite!"
before being thrown out of the courtroom by his new chief
judge, Raouf Rashid Abdel-Wapner.
Hussein’s half brother and co-defendant, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti,
was dragged off by security guards after calling the court
"the daughter of a whore."
"Yeah," Hussein added, "and your mother wears
Army boots." At one point, Hussein and his codefendants
rattled tin cups on the bars of their giant steel playpens
and took turns pretending to cough into their sleeves while
actually shouting the word "Blowjob!"
When the judge tried to restore order by tapping his gavel,
Hussein mocked him, saying, "Little girly man, thinks
he can hurt me with his little toy hammer."
Hussein then made a series of farting noises and called his
trial "the mother of all travesties of justice."
A threat to hold Hussein in contempt of court did not work
either.
"You
want to see contempt? I’ll show you contempt," said Saddam,
who then dropped his trousers and mooned the judge, adding,
"Douchebag!"
In a related story, attorneys for Kenneth Lay suggested they
may defend the Enron scam artist by characterizing his alleged
transgressions as "a crime of passion" motivated
by his unconditional love of stealing other people’s money.
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