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Saddam Hussein's palaces
Telegraph.co.uk ^
| 16 July 2009
| Colin Freeman
Posted on 07/16/2009 7:43:34 PM PDT by Albion Wilde
Saddam Hussein spent billions building dozens of vast, gaudy palaces all over Iraq, many of which are still occupied by US troops. But the Iraqi government is divided - as usual - on what to do with them once the soldiers have gone...
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...‘For sale/rent: 80 presidential palaces, average unit living space half-a-million square feet. Attached gardens featuring disused swimming pools, personal zoos/nuclear bunkers etc. Rooms fitted with thrones and gold lavatories, en suite torture chamber optional. Some bomb damage. Suit megalomaniac or similar.’
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; palace; palaces; postwariraq; saddam
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Photo by Richard Mosse
To: Albion Wilde
Baathist Baroque... LOL.
Kitsch done really bad.
Saddam's bedroom.
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posted on
07/16/2009 7:45:48 PM PDT
by
SolidWood
(Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
To: Albion Wilde
many of which are still occupied by US troops....I bet some of our soldiers have some interesting stories and pictures to bring home...
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:03:12 PM PDT
by
John123
(Turn on your teleprompter Obama and read your lips... "No New Taxes!!")
To: 2ndClassCitizen; 2ndDivisionVet; 3D-JOY; AConservativeRealist; airborne; AnAmericanMother; ...
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:07:23 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
( Jim Thompson for President.)
To: Albion Wilde
Well, ok. I’ll move in one.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:10:50 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
(When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
To: SolidWood
It decorated like that scene at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:21:54 PM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: SolidWood
That is soooooooooo teh ghey......
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:23:24 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(Free men don't need government permission.)
To: Albion Wilde
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:23:56 PM PDT
by
ArmstedFragg
(hoaxy dopey changey)
To: Albion Wilde
Jewish Menorah lighting ceremony at Saddam's palace
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:24:51 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
( Jim Thompson for President.)
To: Albion Wilde
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:26:38 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
( Jim Thompson for President.)
To: ExGeeEye; SolidWood
That is soooooooooo teh ghey......It really is, isn't it? What's with the peachy pink?
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:27:49 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
( Jim Thompson for President.)
To: ArmstedFragg
You are welcome. More pix just posted.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:28:29 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
( Jim Thompson for President.)
To: SolidWood
Yabba Dabba Doo
That bed looks like Fred Flintstone’s car...
Only thing missing are the Broncosaurus ribs..
:)
To: Albion Wilde
LOL! Hahahaha! Christmas and Hanukkah in Saddam's palace. Now THAT is priceless.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:30:03 PM PDT
by
SolidWood
(Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
To: Albion Wilde
I wonder if we could talk them into giving one to Obama. But only if he’d agree to live there full time.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:39:23 PM PDT
by
oneolcop
(Lead, Follow or Get the hell out of the way!)
To: SolidWood
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:49:33 PM PDT
by
LucyJo
("...guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism...". George Washington)
To: Albion Wilde
I stayed in Saddam's victory over America Palace.
Me, a tech and 30,000 gallons of nitric acid, taken from a warehouse in Baghdad, Manufactured in the US and owned by the UN (the stamps on the 5 gal containers ID'd the UN.) This was in 07-08.
Very opulent and stylish digs
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:19:21 PM PDT
by
SERE_DOC
(My Rice Krispies told me to stay home & clean my weapons! How does one clean a phase 4 plasma rifle)
To: Albion Wilde
Fascinating photos. Pity that no ‘news’ program ever wanted to share them or similar pics with American viewers. I wonder if Tikrit could become a tourist destination. The palaces on the lake look very inviting.
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posted on
07/17/2009 4:58:04 AM PDT
by
maica
(Politics is not about facts. it is about what politicians can get people to believe. - Thomas Sowell)
To: Albion Wilde
Do you know who runs that site?
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:55:24 AM PDT
by
ikez78
(http://www.regimeofterror.com - Saddam Hussein and terrorism)
To: SERE_DOC
I stayed in Saddam's victory over America Palace....That's an awesome story! Something to tell the grandkids one day...
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posted on
07/17/2009 6:44:24 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
( Jim Thompson for President.)
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