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Friday, December 5, 2008 12:00 AM

Who wants to visit Saddam's house?

The Iraqi president does his best Darth Vader imitation in HBO's miniseries "House of Saddam."

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Saturday, December 6, 2008 11:03 PM

Is home where the hearts is?

Is "House of Saddam"

Where true art is?

Saturday, December 6, 2008 08:46 PM

sadly tis true

"Because arab bashing

Is ALWAYS in season"

Saturday, December 6, 2008 10:34 AM

Gilligan's a little lame 'o the brain

Skipper always sleeps in his dirty socks

Ginger's got 'er mo Monroe glamor

The professor crafts groovy gadgets

Tellin' time

By island way

Of tropical sun dials

And Coconut clocks

Mary Anne bakes coconut creme pies

Waitin' for the next boat back to Kansas

She hopes the day will come real soon

But that 'ol millionaire

Demands this

The skipper often thinks to himself

How it'd been better if they never left the dock

For here they now are

Away so far

Beached upon

A sand bar

Called Iraq

Saturday, December 6, 2008 05:57 AM

George W. Bush's Monument Is The Devestation Of Iraq.

When viewing the devestation Bush's War has wrought upon the unfortunate Iraqi victims of his war I wonder how many of them now wish they still had Saddam, (our old ally who killed a million Iranians for us) back in control? Christians could practice their faith without fear, display crucifixes openly and women could choose to not wear a veil if they so desired. Education free to all levels producing one of the largest educated, professional class in the Islamic world especially amongst females. Free health care to all regardless of their religious views. Steve, World War 2

Saturday, December 6, 2008 01:23 AM

@gzuckier

My advice to you

Is not to lose all sense of proportion

Or rhyme or reason

Because arab bashing

Is ALWAYS in season

Friday, December 5, 2008 05:22 PM

used to be

you had to at least turn over a rock to find an antisemite. nowadays they're just popping up spontaneously, proud of their courage in confronting the vast international zionist conspiracy which is apparently the greatest threat to goodness and happitude.

Apparently there's no middle ground allowed between thinking Saddam was a great progressive statesman and thinking that Israel is the only hope for civilization in the Middle East because the Arabs are hopeless brutes. Must be true, because i hear it from the loons on the left and the loons on the right, both, in their neverending argument.

Friday, December 5, 2008 09:37 AM

@Gordon Wagner

You're absolutely right, Gordon. We should show more respect to Sodom Hussein.

We should celebrate that heavily-armed people could go to Sodom's rallies.

We should forever cheer Sodom's nationalization of Iraq's oil industry which he used to further such progressive causes as the Iraq/Iran war which resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands on both sides.

We should honor Sodom for his humane treatment of his own people. Never mind those insane neocons over at Amnesty International who reported on Sodom's mass murder of 100,000 Kurds, the execution of innocent Kuwaitis, prostitutes, political prisoners, hell... anyone he didn't like.

As to your tired screed against Israel, even if everything you said was 100% true and worse, does that somehow make Sodom a person worthy of our respect?

To paraphrase Henry Jones and Dean Wormer, goose-stepping morons like yourself should learn that delusional anti-semitism is no way to go through life.

Hoo boy, I am sick of stupidity. But I sure like misspelling Sodom's name.

Friday, December 5, 2008 08:26 AM

Rock of Love 3

Now I'd buy THAT for a Dinar.

Friday, December 5, 2008 08:24 AM

Saddam was a secret Jew

Who of course are the cause of all wars, disease and economic calamity.

Friday, December 5, 2008 08:19 AM

Did you mean "President Hussein"?

What is up with referring to the deposed, murdered former President of Iraq as "Saddam"..? I've never understood that. It seems blatantly disrespectful. Or was it because Bush41 liked to pronounce the name as "Sadam", which I gather was supposed to remind people of "Sodom" as in "Gomorrah".

So we have an HBO historical miniseries? Wow, is THIS going to be painted with the heavy-Zionist paintbrush or what?

Check this out: Iraqis were free to own and publicly carry fully automatic weapons. People would carry automatic weapons to public appearances by President Hussein. Now -- can you IMAGINE attending a public appearance (if there were such a thing) by Bush43 while toting your legal automatic weapon?

Does the HBO fictional series cover Hussein's nationalization of Iraq's oil industry and how badly that pissed off British and US oil interests, who liked getting oil @ $0.50 a barrel?

When do we see the HBO miniseries on Israel's founders committing acts of terrorism against the indigenous people of their stolen country? Or a touching portrait of an eastern European women who emigrated to Israel only to find herself essentially held as a sex slave in Israel? When does the Palestinian genocide get a loving Hollywood portrayal?

Hoo boy I am sick of mainstream media.

Friday, December 5, 2008 07:52 AM

Rock of Love 3

I would watch this if is was done as a 'reality show' where 20-something drunk girls get to pull each other's hair for the right to be a paranoid dictator's main squeeze.

Friday, December 5, 2008 06:29 AM

What about Said Taghmaoui?

Of "Three Kings" fame

Doesn't he even get his little

Token red star today?

Friday, December 5, 2008 06:24 AM

Cribs

Sounds like the worst episode of MTV Cribs ever.

Friday, December 5, 2008 05:49 AM

Watch it for Igal Naor and Shohreh Aghdashloo

They are worth the price of admission alone.

The contrast between the sane brother and the insane brother is also interesting. I watched it on BBC and thought it was a great soap opera, even though I knew most of the history already.

Friday, December 5, 2008 05:46 AM

It's like Ray Davies said:

"Paranoia the destroyer."

Friday, December 5, 2008 05:11 AM

Saddam's paranoia

As recent history has proved: Sometimes paranoiacs really do have conspiracies plotted against them.

Friday, December 5, 2008 04:24 AM

Casting Ironies

I saw this series when the BBC first aired it on this side of the Atlantic a few months ago, and I very much enjoyed it. I did think it far more reminiscent of the Sopranos or some other mafia saga than Star Wars, which is quite a leap of imagination and association on Ms. Havrilesky's part.

An amusing irony is that the actor playing Saddam, Igal Naor, is Iraeli, and Shohreh Aghdashloo who plays his wife Sajida is Iranian. Saddam would have considered this casting quite an indignity, I would imagine.

Thursday, December 4, 2008 11:48 PM

..and for those of you uninitiated in the arabic language

Khairallah is not small Toyota compact.

Thursday, December 4, 2008 11:35 PM

Adnan

FYI... the Adnan that Saddam killed and that his wife Sajida confronts him about in the series, was actually Sajida's brother Adnan Khairallah

Thursday, December 4, 2008 08:42 PM

It's a BBC production

HBO didn't make it, they're just showing it.

Thursday, December 4, 2008 08:41 PM

Everyone knows he was really a nice guy

and it's all Bush and America's fault anyway.

Thursday, December 4, 2008 07:02 PM

Saddam's Palace

& Archie's Bunker

This cheese dip here

Sounds like a "real"

Made for TV

All in the Ugly

Clunker

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