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Chaldean Catholic Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister in US custody.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/24/i...fdb9be1a5da&ei=5004&partner=UNTD

In a way, I am sad. Saddam Hussein, though mad, was not stupid. He carefully picked a spokesman who would lend some semblence of credibility to his regime.

Like many young people, including Christians, Aziz joined the Ba'ath Party, when it was gathering of new ideas and vision. Later, like so many political movements, Ba'ath was hijacked by someone with less than altruistic motives.

The Saints have always taught us the importance of good companions.

Who am I to judge Tariq Aziz? The Lord has given so much to me. Iraq is so far and I understand it so little.

I wish that his life had taken a different direction.

Tariq "The Americans will never take me alive" Aziz, knows that he is lucky to be alive. If he had fallen into the the hands of the Shia--of whom he is responsi ble for many tortures and deaths--the consequences would have been brutal....and fatal.

Against his intentions, Tariq Aziz has helped to make the Shia Muslim movement the strongest religious-political movement in Iraq.

If it is true that, "the seed of the church is in the blood of the martyrs," the same must be said of Islam in Iraq.

Tariq Aziz: A father (ironically) of Iraqi Islam and the Muslim revival in Iraq.

Dear Sonny:

Off hand, I disagree with your assessment of DPM Tariq Aziz, unless damning evidence to the contrary will be unearthed shortly.

Have you heard about "Chemical" Ali and his cohorts?

AmdG

I certainly have heard of Chemical Ali. Aziz was one of his apologists, as he was of the Sadamite regime in general and a close friend of Sadam Hussein for almost 50 years.

Thank God, Aziz like the other murderous thugs of the defunct regime is finished in Iraq. But where will he find safe haven?

Objectively, neither Kurds or Shias are quick to forgive or forget and as the Shias continue to recover the bodies of their loved ones tortured and murdered by the Sadamite regime and its collaborators, the blood of the Islamic martyrs will cry out from their graves for revenge.

Tariq Aziz--according to the laws and traditions of Islam--is doomed.

I glad to see so many people now agree with the war they once spoke so strongly against.

I wonder how those nations who opposed this war (e.g. France) now feels after seeing the jubilation of a people oppressed for so long? Maybe France should now explain to these Iraqis why it sought to keep in power the man who has oppressed them so severely?

Apparently, sometimes war, if conducted correctly, is the answer to solving certain problems in the world.

This is in contradiction to certain hierarchs who proclaimed "war is never the answer."