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2006-12-31 08:27:54 · 30 answers · asked by trisha_is_bored 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Poor Saddam! he will miss the Bears/Packers game today.
2006-12-31 08:37:59 · answer #1 · answered by Steven D 2 · 4⤊ 3⤋
The flags are at half-staff for President Gerald R. Ford
who has passed away.
2006-12-31 16:50:11 · answer #2 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is for President Gerald Ford, not Saddam
2006-12-31 16:45:39 · answer #3 · answered by Nicki 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They're at half staff for Gerald Ford, not saddam. Ford as a Us President gets 30 days of flag at half staff after his death.
2006-12-31 16:28:51 · answer #4 · answered by The Big Box 6 · 11⤊ 1⤋
Read this:
The Sunday Times
December 31, 2006
"Deluded to the last
"Saddam did not have to end on the gallows. He was the tyrant who simply failed to comprehend anything outside his own brutal world, writes Fouad Ajami, America's foremost Arab academic
"It was inevitable that the man condemned to the gallows would speak of his imminent death in religious terms. It has always been like this with Saddam Hussein.
"The quintessential secularist who had terrorised the Shi'ite seminarians of Najaf and the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood with equal brutality fell back on religious symbolism whenever calamity struck. . . . "
2006-12-31 16:48:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
they are at half "mast" for Pres Ford, not Saddam. BUT flags of people who feel like they should honor Saddam are at half mast because he was a leader of state, albeit a bad one, and it is the tradition worldwide to do so for any pres, monarch, or prime minister.
2006-12-31 16:41:02 · answer #6 · answered by samdragonsfire 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are 1/2 staff for President Ford, not Saddam. If it was for Saddam, they would be full staff, with fireworks going off.
2006-12-31 16:32:18 · answer #7 · answered by ramman 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
They are not at half mast for Saddam. They are that way because former President of the United States Gerald Ford passed away. He passed away last week. The flags were that way before Saddam was killed.
2006-12-31 16:30:13 · answer #8 · answered by Bob W 2 · 8⤊ 3⤋
What planet have you been on for the last few days? They're at half mast for former President Gerald Ford and will be for 30 days.
2006-12-31 16:39:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They aren't, at least not here in the U.S. Flags are flying at half mast for the passing of former President Ford.
2006-12-31 16:32:10 · answer #10 · answered by Joanne D 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
For President Ford.
2006-12-31 16:29:24 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋