This is GREAT so far!
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This is GREAT so far!
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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”.
A SUPER American!! Whattaguy .. quiet warrior,
just getting it done. God bless him, and God
bless and protect our troops.
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