Saddam living in 1960s. Shgadelic baby...

[Gem]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/14/sprj.irq.saddam.hideaway/index.html


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.



No wonder this guy is insane, he thought he was living in the 1960s.

What will they find next? James Bond gadget in a presidential palace? It sickens me to see such luxury when the entire region is in poverty.

Gem

[corplinx]

Originally posted by Gem

What will they find next? James Bond gadget in a presidential palace? It sickens me to see such luxury when the entire region is in poverty.



Saddam was the leader of the country. It is expected that his standard of living would be high. Our own leaders have great pay and pensions better than the private sector. Yet we still have widespread poverty in Appalachia.

The thing that gets to me is A. their leaders usurping humanitarian aid for themselves and B. people like Mike Moore who claimed that starving people were the fault of the west and not Saddam who was building palaces with gold faucets with oil money.

Was iraq anything more than a glorified feudal state?

[a_unique_person]

Originally posted by corplinx


Saddam was the leader of the country. It is expected that his standard of living would be high. Our own leaders have great pay and pensions better than the private sector. Yet we still have widespread poverty in Appalachia.

The thing that gets to me is A. their leaders usurping humanitarian aid for themselves and B. people like Mike Moore who claimed that starving people were the fault of the west and not Saddam who was building palaces with gold faucets with oil money.

Was iraq anything more than a glorified feudal state?

The sanctions were supposed to hurt Saddam and not his people. They achieved the exact opposite. They should have been dropped.

[Reginald]

Originally posted by a_unique_person


The sanctions were supposed to hurt Saddam and not his people. They achieved the exact opposite. They should have been dropped.

You are just so so Naive! You stun me at times with comments like this.

And just what do you think would have been the priority of the Iraqi Regime when sanctions were lifted?
Food distribution was carried out as a political tool within the regime, would that change? I argue no.

Would they have brought more weapons and other "tools" of domestic supression? I argue yes.

Just what in your "Noddy goes to Bahgdad" world do you think would have happened, and just how you think that no sanctions would have improved the "lot" of the average Iraqi then??

Need I remind you that many things were not restricted, even Cars! With saddam at the top and his supporters underneath the Iraqi people didnt stand a chance, whatever the sanctions sitruation.

[hammegk]

Originally posted by a_unique_person


The sanctions were supposed to hurt Saddam and not his people. They achieved the exact opposite. They should have been dropped.

So true, and they finally are being dropped. Just over a decade of misery has resulted for the great bulk of Iraqis from a problem that would better have been solved by invasion & regime overthrow to actually end Desert Storm.

You should be wildly happy.

[Skeptical Greg]

Originally posted by a_unique_person

They should have been dropped.

They have been!!! Or haven't you noticed?:rolleyes: