Hey, does anyone know where I can get the pictures of Saddam in his underpants in higher res?

Shalom David.

This is just brilliant!

Will Saddam launch his own brand – ‘Fruit of the Doom’?

Jen

while he was gassing these people, he was still a BIG friend of the US…

rumsfeld and saddam shaking hands, even captured on film. No outrage about torture, WMD or “freedom” back then.

I have to admit that I was surprised to hear that Iraqis, even those that hated Saddam and feared him more than anything, respect him enough to be ashamed for him in his undies. But when I heard what the Iraqi people in the streets said (and this is European tv I’m talking about, so if they would have had better anti-US footage, they would have used it) they talked about “it’s not respectful to show an Iraqi like that” …

It’s not so much respect for HIM, it’s more respect for themselves, for their country and nationality. It’s no fun being showed again and again that the US managed to do to him what they’ve dreamed of doing to him for decades.

No one would ever object to Hitler being shown in his undies. Showing one of the most evil people of history in such a vulnerable situation is pretty relieving. He’s just a human being, even though he had a sort of “superpower” for a while. What joy to see pictures of Arafat looking like Snow White’s long-lost 8th dwarf.

What annoys me is the double standards. No one objects pictures of Bush with traces on his face after his choking-on-a-pretzel incident (you can’t deny it, rather humiliating for a newly elected president to almost die – from a pretzel!). No one said anything about the pictures of Peres in his boxer shorts (twas around 1998 if anyone remembers… I don’t especially like the guy, but he was always a democratically elected politician, and I found it rather harsh that yediot ahronot or maariv or whoever it was would show pictures of him like that). If such pictures of Sharon or Bibi would surface, I’m convinced that none of the people who are having a cow over the Sun would bat an eyelash. Yet for the person who’s responsible for wiping out a whole kurish village of 5000 people by gassing them in one afternoon, you protest? For such barely human scum? The only thing I can find to criticize is the fact that the Geneva conventions as such were trespassed in order for this picture to surface. But I have no problem with the picture itself.

(see Dave, this is what happens when I *don’t* erase what I’ve just written regret convincing us to leave our comments?)

Of course you have Saddam in his underpants.

I answered your post. See here and here.