Saddam cancels the dancing girls at his 5.5m birthday party

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 04/28/2002 | Topaz Amoore

[chnsmok]

We may have found the way to bring down Saddam. Mrs. Saddam seems to have the upper hand. Maybe a shopping trip to Mervyns????

[dennisw]

A tour of Baghdad, with its ubiquitous Saddam posters, murals and statuary, proves only that this cynically fostered one-man personality cult is still going strong.

"He deserves this more and more," Mr al-Ta'ay said. "He is a symbol of our dignity, our heroic existence. You ask an ordinary citizen whatever you like and he will tell you that he loves the president."

[Sabertooth]

I thought that his MO and behavior resembles Stalin too much. But I never knew that he consciously studied Joseph Stalin.

It's pathological.

Remeber this staged photo op?

Hussein and petrified British child, held briefly hostage prior to Gulf War in 1990. Trying to make like "Uncle Joe" Stalin (right), Saddam was even less convincing.

That resemblance is intentional.

Hussein also models himself after Saladin (also born in Tikrit) and Nebuchadnezzar. Both are Iraqi/Babylonian/Chaldean conquerors of Jerusalem.

Saddam will make a serious attempt to make it a trifecta before he dies... Or take Israel with him by way of WMD-tipped SCUDs.

More megalomania here.

[Mo1]

A five and a half million pound party? That is over 8 million dollars.
Bumped so I can find it the next time some nitwit starts flapping his lip about how the poor children of Iraq are starving because of US sanctions.

I was thinking the same thing ...

[Valin]

You ask an ordinary citizen whatever you like and he will tell you that he loves the president."....or else!

[Movemout]

Wasn't there some Iraqi apologist posting here a while back about how the USA embargo on Iraqi oil was causing the deaths of thousands of children due to malnutrition and poor medical care as a direct result of our sanctions? Where are you you now you little sand flea?

[Fabozz]

"You ask an ordinary citizen whatever you like and he will tell you that he loves the president."

Mr al-Ta'ay continued, "Why, such is the devotion of the people to their President that even if you break into a man's home at 4am and grab him out of bed, what's the very first thing he will say to you? 'I love Saddam!' This is true; I've seen it happen."

[Neophyte]

The Iraqi TV Taped Broadcast still puts a serious question of where Saddam's left hand is? Somebody earlier on this topic insisted that he is the man, and AiryFart goes both ways... Judging by the poor kid's face and body language, his beloved leader and the nation's father wasn't behaving quite paternaly at that moment.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #23

Thanks for replying after so many months. :) I agree with you. That is why I do not buy the argument that, if left alone, Saddam will mind his oil business and cause trouble to no one but his neighbors. Wrong. He wants to rule all Arab world with weapons to match his megalomania. He will do his best to be another WMD superpower like Soviet Union. He is as expansionistic as Osama.

[MinuteGal]

Do they play Pin the Tail on the Camel at Iraqi birthday parties? Just wondering.........

Leni