That was when he accused the Briton of being "predatory" and subjecting the former colony to "new-age slavery", and vowed: "There will be no more suffering of this one man's campaign to subjugate an entire nation to his will".
But the truth, according to many critics, is that no suffering and no punishment of any duration could in and of itself compensate for someone's wrongdoing.
Aside from the pained yowling of the Backstreet Boys during dinner, there is no suffering aboard to speak of, which is a great relief because the world at that moment is battered and tattered enough.
Once we head down that path there would be no end to it, no end to the suffering of innocent people, no end to the bloody ransom all civilized nations must pay.
Among women, being bedridden for fewer than 30 days with suffering decreased and being bedridden for 30 or more days with no suffering increased across all levels of frailty within each age group; however, differences were modest for experiencing fewer than 30 bedridden days with no suffering and 30 or more bedridden days with suffering across levels of frailty.
There is no suffering scale, no way to compare the suffering of one human being, or one illness, to the suffering of another.
"But there was no dressing up the suffering of the patients inside," he writes.
"If our proposals are adopted by the Security Council, Iraq will have no excuse for the suffering of the Iraqi people".
Somehow over the centuries, the "if" got clipped -- no doubt prolonging the suffering of untold multitudes who thought gluttony their best remedy.
"Merely having your name added to a concert may be interpreted as a political act... and it may be assumed that one has no mind for the suffering of the innocent," Costello said in a statement prior to the raid.
