article_snippet.sent: Sentenced to eight years, Iraqi security forces served 114 days before Rep. Bill Richardson, D-New Mexico, a close Clinton ally (and future Cabinet-level U.N. ambassador) flew to Baghdad to retrieve them.
article_snippet.sent: The American media lauded Richardson, but Richardson trip was not without cost: Saddam used his trip to depict Iraq as strong and America as weak.
article_snippet.sent: Saddam Hussein ... accepts the pleas by Bill Clinton, the Congress and American people," the Iraqi News Agency reported.