CNN says Report says Saddam loved "Old Man and the Sea" the

[KoKo]

Hemingway Masterpiece and watched American classic movies trying to understand the West. He never saw US as an Enemy, but did see Saudi Arabia and Israel as his enemy!

Over thousand page report coming out of Saddam's Interrogation. But, CNN focused on the "human side of Saddam."

What gives here? :eyes:

[BlueEyedSon]

1. It just keeps getting better, don't it?

[KoKo]

6. Bizarro World for sure! (n/t)

[ComerPerro]

2. Are you saying you love Saddam

and therefore hate America????


That's my Freeper impression for the day.

[KoKo]

10. Hey..If freepers watched Blitzer they must be wondering ...What's UP

What about Armageddon and our plans? :D

[whistle]

3. Not to be confused with "My Pet Goat"

[Arancaytar]

4. That's it: They've caught the devil, and finally,

They have to admit he's not breathing any fire...

[Jacobin]

5. At least their dictator could read............

:evilgrin:

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. And LIKED reading

[KoKo]

11. It's true! Saddam could READ! He was Dangerous to the Chimp who can't

get through a sentence without flubbing his lines! He only knows "Cheerleading" which is why his "kindergarten buddie Hughes" puts him out with crowds waving "Pom Pom's."

Chimp see those old "fluffies" from the 50's 60's and he GOES WILD...back in dreamland when he was a "waver" showing off his "Texas Two Step" at Yale cheering for HIS TEAM!

[Emboldened Chimp]

8. What is it with communist dictators and Hemingway?

First Castro, now Saddam. Who's next, Putin?

[KoKo]

12. "Macho, Macho Ma'an" I don't have the sound track but do you remember

the song? THAT's what it's about..."I wanna be a Ma'cho..Ma'cho Ma'an!

That's why folks love Hemingway. As a female I liked a few of his books where he really was in his "romantic faze."

The rest of him was MACHO..but always with troubles with "the ladies."

[Emboldened Chimp]

15. I was never a big fan, either...

he had no sense of humor. Papa really needed to lighten up a bit.

[kskiska]

19. I enjoy reading ABOUT Hemingway

more than I enjoy his macho writing. His life and loves were quite interesting.

[displacedtexan]

9. Hemingway is great for learning English...Simple sentences.

Very few compound/complex structures.

Hemingway is to literature as M. Night Shayamalan is to film.

George W. could take a lesson from Saddam.

[KoKo]

20. ROFL! Think about Bush and Saddam in a debate....who would win....

and maybe that's why we had to go to war. Remember Poppy couldn't speak and chew gum at the same time...so his evil spawn is not so far off the same bush...

Who runs these Bushes? Well we have part of the picture...but it's deeper and darker than the obvious...imho..anyway. :shrug:

[KoKo]

13. and...Hemingway knew violence...he ended his life with shotgun to his head

after living a very "colorful life."

"I burn my candle at both ends...it will not last the night...but ahhh my foes and ahhhh...my friends, ..it will not last the night.

Dorothy Parker...

[KoKo]

14. BTW: Tariq Azziz ..Iraq's Diplomat...had "Sleepless in Seattle in his

home video library along with other "Western Movies" many of us would have when we came in and raided and destroyed his home and pilfered and rifled through his family pictures and belongings.

I got trashed "BIG TIME" on DU for saying we don't treat "diplomats houses" like that because if we do it to "them" then they will feel free to do it to "us."

These folks aren't what they were portrayed. Remember...the US and our allies put them in positions of "power."

Then we "DESTROYED THEM" and made a MOCKERY of their populations in Prisons where we treated them to the vilest of acts to dehumanize them.

Imagine if it was all reversed and we were in their Prisons after what WE have done.????:shrug:

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. Spencer Tracy played the role in the movie.

God it was good.

[Bluebear]

17. Invade Key West, George! Saddam connection & filthy gays!

Kill two birds with one stone!

:shrug:

[KoKo]

18. Are we yet at the point where we can say "Saddam was Human?"

Can we get past Chimp/PNAC's view of him as EVIL...EVIL...EVIL...TAKE HIM OUT..KILL HIM...KILL HIM...

to look at leaders of coutries we may not like or approve of but start to see them as HUMANS...who may want to emulate us...but given our "Bush Doctrine of Pre-Emptive Strike" may suddenly be suspcious of our motives. :shrug:

[KoKo]

21. As a female, Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" was a beautiful story and

my favorite of his books...most of the others I had to read for assignment. I was a Scott Fitzgerald fan (one of his contemporaries) and I found Hemingway raw and disreguarding of women.

But, "A Moveable Feast" is worth a visit if you think you don't like Hemingway and are a bit of a "romantic/realist" as I am. It's his life in Paris with his first wife..and it's Hemingway innocent and a break from the world we all live in today. I own the book in hardback...and I will never sell it.

It's reviewed on Amazon...if anyone wants a read away from it all.
Probably not for 20'something DU'ers but 35 and beyond...:D


Paris: 1921-1926, October 3, 2004
Reviewer: kmacp (USA) - See all my reviews
"...this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy." This is more than an autobiographical memoir of Hemingway's early years in Paris. It is a glimpse into a literary epoch, an intimate glimpse into the community of expatriate writers and artists who lived in Paris in the 1920s: Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and so on.

And of course, it is a chapter from Hemingway's own life, written thirty years after the fact. There are passages of rich, descriptive attention to sensory details - "As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture..." - very different from the often terse writing style of his novels and short stories.

And while I do long (just a bit) for the Paris that Hemingway describes, the enduring treasure of this is a book is how it passes along a passionate attention to the details of life - not just Hemingway's, but your own, as well. In this way, the "moveable feast" is not just the experience of Paris, it is life itself.

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