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Indelible Image That Has Everyone's Attention
Aired December 16, 2003 - 05:58 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: You've seen it over and over and over again, those pictures of Saddam Hussein looking more like a confused grandfather, or maybe even the Unabomber.
CNN's Jeanne Moos has more on the indelible image that has everyone's attention.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He's the cover boy on every newspaper. Talk about arresting images.
(on camera): Pretty, isn't he?
(voice-over): It's one thing to see a movie star's disheveled mug shot. But whoever thought we'd be staring into the gaping mouth of Saddam Hussein?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He looks like a bum.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He looks like a man defeated.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They should have shot him in the hole.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I say we should hang him.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I felt sorry for him.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I did, too, when I first saw him.
MOOS: Saw the fastidious former dictator being checked for lice.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He has hurt America so bad, I mean why would we be concerned if he had some weird disease?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was on top of the world and all of a sudden he's really somebody that you could step on.
MOOS: Some folks saw a resemblance to others in the man the "New York Post" called Harry Hussein.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Looking at the TV and he said, oh, it looks like Fidel Castro.
MOOS: Now that we mention it --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a Castroesque quality. The beard is Whitman but, of course, the analogy is strained.
MOOS: That would be poet Walt Whitman.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, the funny answer would be Santa Claus maybe.
MOOS: Maybe in this season of bad Santas.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: At the end of his career, Jerry Garcia started to look like that just a little bit.
MOOS: But is Saddam grateful he's not dead, that he didn't go the way his sons went? The company that made the dual headed action figure, Uday Hussein, is already rushing out a $30 Saddam Captured doll.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He looks like hell. But you look great.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He looks pretty bad.
MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired December 16, 2003 - 05:58 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: You've seen it over and over and over again, those pictures of Saddam Hussein looking more like a confused grandfather, or maybe even the Unabomber.
CNN's Jeanne Moos has more on the indelible image that has everyone's attention.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He's the cover boy on every newspaper. Talk about arresting images.
(on camera): Pretty, isn't he?
(voice-over): It's one thing to see a movie star's disheveled mug shot. But whoever thought we'd be staring into the gaping mouth of Saddam Hussein?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He looks like a bum.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He looks like a man defeated.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They should have shot him in the hole.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I say we should hang him.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I felt sorry for him.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I did, too, when I first saw him.
MOOS: Saw the fastidious former dictator being checked for lice.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He has hurt America so bad, I mean why would we be concerned if he had some weird disease?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was on top of the world and all of a sudden he's really somebody that you could step on.
MOOS: Some folks saw a resemblance to others in the man the "New York Post" called Harry Hussein.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Looking at the TV and he said, oh, it looks like Fidel Castro.
MOOS: Now that we mention it --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a Castroesque quality. The beard is Whitman but, of course, the analogy is strained.
MOOS: That would be poet Walt Whitman.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, the funny answer would be Santa Claus maybe.
MOOS: Maybe in this season of bad Santas.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: At the end of his career, Jerry Garcia started to look like that just a little bit.
MOOS: But is Saddam grateful he's not dead, that he didn't go the way his sons went? The company that made the dual headed action figure, Uday Hussein, is already rushing out a $30 Saddam Captured doll.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He looks like hell. But you look great.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He looks pretty bad.
MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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