[nutmeg]

This is GREAT so far!

[VOA]

“
This is GREAT so far!
“

The tour of one of Saddam’s estates reminds me of a story in the
Wall Street Journal maybe a year ago.

It recounts how a bunch of Saddam’s closest followers were watching
a film (some Hollywood production, but I can’t remember the title) when
a big @$$-whoopin’ American bomb came through the ceiling.

Burying hundreds of Saddam’s best buds when the place collapsed.
And now Coalition personnel work/live adjacent to this “instant
cemetary”.

[STARWISE]

A SUPER American!! Whattaguy .. quiet warrior,
just getting it done. God bless him, and God
bless and protect our troops.

[Libloather]

Who knew?

Saddam's Flintstone Fixation
Baghdad as Bedrock

In the initial days of the U.S. attack on Iraq, one of Saddam Hussein's Baghdad palaces was targeted as a strategic target. However, the palace, built by Saddam for his grandchildren as a "theme palace," was anything but a repository for weapons of mass destruction.

In fact, Saddam, who used to watch Flintstone cartoons with his grand kids, decided to build a palace in Baghdad that was a replica of Bedrock, the fictional town where Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, and Dino lived. The palace was a huge playground for Saddam's grandchildren. However, Pentagon planners decided that Bedrock Palace was a threat to the West and it was demolished within the first few hours of the war.

Plenty of pics - http://gocomics.typepad.com/the_sandbox/2008/07/flintstone-vill.html