Saddam Hussein's Incredibly Tacky Taste In Art (NOT An Onion Satire)

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | April 12, 2003

[PJ-Comix]

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Eric Hooper looks upon a fantasy painting in a house in an upscale neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, April 12, 2003.

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[Revolting cat!]

If it ain't a Velvet Elvis then it ain't art.

If it ain't Jesus, it ain't art!

[Cachelot]

I'd dig under his bed and look for the John Norman/Gor

Lol. Ba'ath party of the Priest-Kings :)).

[wimpycat]

Jeez, what is that? It looks like Flash Gordon meets Barbarella.

[Windcatcher]

A Typical Saddam AD&D Session



Saddam: "Okay, you leave the prison complex and turn the corner down the secret passage. You come to a high arched hallway. There's a flickering light at the end of the hall."

Khuse: "Aziz, go check it out."

Aziz: "I don't know...alone?"

Khuse: "I take my sword out and point it at Aziz, Saddam. Aziz, I said to check it out."

Aziz: "Okay, I start creeping down the hall, moving silently."

Saddam (rolls dice): "Okay, you make it to the end of the hall. There's a 20x20 octagonal room." (pauses) "The best way to decribe it is it looks kinda like the prison room under my house on Saladin Street. There are two women chained to the wall."

Uday: "We rush down the hall!"

Saddam: "Shut up, you're not there. Only Aziz is there."

Uday: "Get back here Aziz, or I'll kill you!"

Saddam: "I said, you're not there. You can't tell him what to do."

Aziz: "I head back to the group and tell them what I found."

Uday: "We rush down the hall!"

Saddam: "Okay. You rush down the hall. You find two Anglo women chained to the wall."

Uday: "Are they pretty?"

Saddam (rolls dice): "They're *gorgeous*, the most beautiful women you've ever seen."

Uday: "I rape them!"

Saddam: "Both of them?"

Khuse: "I want one!"

Aziz: "What about me?"

Uday and Khuse: "SHUT UP!"

Saddam: "Okay, Uday Khuse each rape one of the women." (rolls dice) "While you were doing that, however, two umber hulks come into the room. Remember, you're both not wearing armor, since you had to take it off to rape them."

Uday: "I throw Aziz at them and run!"

(yes, I know, I'm a rabid D&D player. Sue me.)

[kcvl]

Parisoula Lampsos(Saddam's mistress)

ABC Interview

Sept. 12 — A woman who says she was Saddam Hussein's mistress describes a Viagra-fueled lover who enjoyed watching The Godfather and tapes of his enemies being tortured — but cried as the allies took Kuwait from Iraqi occupation during the Gulf War.

"He don't believe in his mother, he don't believe in God, he didn't believe in nobody," Parisoula Lampsos, 54, told ABCNEWS' Claire Shipman in an interview from a safe house in Lebanon.

"He believe only for Saddam," Lampsos added. "He look at the mirror, 'I am Saddam.' He went like that. He looks. 'I am Saddam. Heil Hitler!'"

Allegedly Helped Bin Laden

As U.S. officials look for current links between Saddam and al Qaeda, Lampsos said she was told the Iraqi leader has met and given money in the past to Osama bin Laden, according to one of several written excerpts from the Primetime Thursday broadcast.

Lampsos saw bin Laden at Saddam's palace in the 1980s, she said, and claimed Saddam's son Oday told her his father met with bin Laden again in the mid-1990s and gave him money.

"He give to Osama bin Laden," Lampsos said. "He give to Palestine."

Lampsos says she was Saddam's mistress on and off for 30 years, and at times saw him almost on a daily basis. But after fleeing Iraq a year ago, she fears Saddam will try to kill her, and she disguises herself by wearing a veil in public.

[kcvl]

SADDAM'S SEX SECRETS REVEALED

Saddam Hussein used Viagra to pep up his sex life and enjoyed watching his enemies being tortured, according to his long-time mistress.

The Iraqi dictator was a "tender" lover who showered her with gifts and affection.

But as he got older he turned to the wonder love drug.


He also used a face-pack to look younger and spent nights watching videos of his enemies being battered and beaten, according to America's ABC News.

"Saddam, he don't need to force anybody. You are afraid. You are afraid to say no. I was with him because I was afraid of him," said ex-lover Parisoula Lampsos.

Twisted

Ms Lampsos, 54, says she was Saddam's mistress for 30 years. She left Iraq a year ago and is living in hiding in Lebanon where she spoke to the American broadcaster.

She paints a picture of a dictator becoming more and more paranoid and twisted by power.

But it was not always like that. He was once a warm and generous person, Ms Lampsos said.

"He was tender, he was warm, he was nice, he was another person," she said.

But as the years began to take their toll, he began dying his hair, using a face pack to hide the wrinkles, and even resorted to Viagra to keep up his sex drive.

Snuff

"He don't believe in his mother, he don't believe in God, he didn't believe in nobody," she said.

"He believe only for Saddam. He look at the mirror, 'I am Saddam.' He went like that. He looks. 'I am Saddam. Heil Hitler!'"

The president enjoyed quiet nights in. But rather than putting his feet up and watching a film, he would don a cowboy hat, puff on a cigar and watch a snuff video of his enemies being killed.

"He was happy, happy, happy," Ms Lampsos said

[oyez]

I used to work with some AD&D'ers. And that sounds about what they might say. Nice story. LOL.

[kcvl]

She knew Saddam was willing to go to extreme measures to get what he wanted. She says she saw first-hand examples of his ruthlessness — such as when she believes he ordered the assassination of his oldest son because he viewed the son, Oday, as a troublemaker and a rival for power.

The assassination attempt failed, and Oday was left paralyzed.

"I didn't want in this way," Lampsos recalled Saddam saying afterwards. "I wanted him to die. It was better for him."

Even when relaxing, Saddam's brutal side could come out, she said. According to Lampsos, Saddam loved watching The Godfather, listening to "Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra, or seeing videos of his enemies being tortured. He sometimes donned a cowboy hat, sipped whiskey on the rocks and puffed on a cigar as he watched the torture.

"He was happy, happy, happy," she said of the torture viewing. "Happiest day."

Saddam also raised gazelles, she said, because they were his favorite dinnertime meal, and when he was hungry he handpicked them to be slaughtered.

‘Thinks All the Time He Is Sick’

But Saddam also lived with fears, Lampsos said.

Saddam "thinks all the time he is sick," she said, and prefers that people kiss him on the shoulder instead of the cheek so he doesn't get infected with germs.

Several years ago, she added, Saddam summoned a doctor from Cuba because he suffered a stroke, something Western observers had suspected.

"If you see him in some photos, his mouth is not normal," Lampsos said. "It droops."

According to Lampsos, Saddam worried somewhat when George W. Bush was elected president, believing the younger Bush would come after him. But, she claimed, "He don't care."

‘Who’s America? … I Am Saddam’

Lampsos said Saddam was convinced that he would win the Gulf War a decade ago because, "He never lose. He always think that he will win."

Even after the United States stepped into the fray, she added, Saddam thought, "Who's America? Who are they? What [do] they think they are? I am Saddam."

But when the allies seized Kuwait, she sensed he had been crying, as his eyes appeared to be "with tears. His eye was red, red, red."

She said Saddam told her: "'I lose.' I said, 'What?' He said, 'Kuwait.' He said, 'They took Kuwait from me but I will took it again.'"

[SarahW]

It would be really funny if you did a blow-up of them playing with the Ba'ath deck. :)

[Fearless Flyers]

45 Goals from "The Naked Communist," W. Cleon Skousen, November 1961, pp. 259-262.

23 Control art critics and directors of museums. "Plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

[MattAMiller]

It makes me wonder how much of that oil for food money went for 20-sided dice and character sheets.

[eddie willers]

Jesus blessing a PeterBilt™.

Brings tears to eyes....

[demnomo]

I mean, seriously, he must have had his Baathist minions trolling the ass end of the sale tables at DragonCon or the World SF Cons.

LOL. Ain't that the truth...

[nopardons]

Okay,you're tacky ; well, your taste in " art " certainly is. :-)

[tophat9000]

Saddam was an overgrown Gang Banger and had the same taste in art… bet it’s painted on black velvet