There was a recent, excellent, documentary on Saddam Hussein called Uncle
Saddam. Anyone interested in the craziness over there should watch this,
as it has been making the rounds on cable television in the US. Son Uday,
the perpetrator of the athlete torture, was actually imprisoned by his own
on 1/20/03 10:15 PM, Bob Duncan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There was a case where he had two of his daughter's husbands executed.
Sounds like, instead of going to war, we should send a crew of TV execs to
sign up the family for next season's hit reality show. Something like a
cross between The
Phil wrote:
Always seems to me you can understand Saddam better if you just think of
him as a Mafia Don, basing much of his chain of command on family and
personal loyalty rather than merit, and ready to use whatever power needed
to keep power.
Those are my exact feelings, too, although I can
