What is it about Arab dictators that they keep making the Onion's humor real? It apears that Saddam's "love shack" was a send up to Austin Powers.
From the article:
"The home's 1960s look - parodied in the series of "Austin Powers" spy spoofs - inspired a round of imitations from soldiers slogging door to door."Yeah, baaabeee," said Carter, doing his best imitation of actor Mike Myers' character.
"Shagadelic," another soldier shouted.
Indeed, the carpet was navy blue shag."
Meanwhile, when troops went through Odai Hussein's place, they found the, errr, something even more disturbing:
There were also some unusual discoveries in Odai's palace.In addition to finding a lot of liquor, electronics, Cuban cigars and porn -- U.S. soldiers say they found pictures of President George W. Bush's twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara Bush.
They say the pictures were hanging in one of Odai Hussein's gymnasiums.
Ick! I don't even want to go into the implications of that one.
The world will be a better place with Saddam and his whole male line at the bottom of a compost heap.
I'm with Den Beste today... THESE are the pictures we should show in Europe. Utterly tasteless palaces, not jails or torture cells or nuclear weapons or any of those other things they wouldn't give a damn about anyway.
Oh, yeah, while I'm at it: Saturday Night Live needs to be all over this one with a skit or three.
When O heard that yesterday I couldn't believe my ears. Then, I remembered being in Amman, Jordan, circa 1986, sitting in a cafe with two blonde german girls. While we were eating and talking, a small crowd, 7-10 men, gathered around us. I thought they probably heard us speaking english and wanted to talk with us, so I asked one of the men, in Arabic, what he wanted. He said that they didn't want anything, they just wanted to look at the girls with the "golden" hair. Needless to say, I was Flummoxed. But, after 10 months in Arab countries, only seeing women with their bodies completely covered, I went to Tel Aviv, where the girls on the beach were wearink bikinis you could stuff into a thimball. At that point, I sort of knew how those Arabs felt.
As to that compost heap; that would ruin a perfectly good pile of fertilizer!