Many American presidents have kept prized possessions within reach during their White House years. Franklin D. Roosevelt cherished a 19th century ship model of the U.S.S. Constitution. One of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s favorite gifts was an engraved Steuben glass bowl from his cabinet. And sitting on John F. Kennedy’s desk in the Oval Office was a paperweight made from a coconut shell he had carved with a distress message after his PT-109 was sunk during World War II.So... just under 5000 soldiers dead and plus 30,000 maimed so Georgie can brag about getting the Mustache of Doom who dared to insult his Poppy?
The objects have been bequeathed to the American public, accessible through a visit to each man’s presidential library and museum. And so when the library for George W. Bush opens in 2013 on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, visitors will most likely get to see one of his most treasured items: Saddam Hussein’s pistol.
Go for it, Bush. It will show you are really high class.
Update: Think Progress has more.
Don't psychopaths keep items of their victims?
4 comments:
Was that a nuclear pistol capable of producing a mushroom cloud? Did it shoot poison gas bullets? What kind of pistol of mass destruction was it?
The pistol was capable of sending small drones filled with anthrax into the air to Kansas City and Detroit.... and mocking insults to the Bush White House...
I believe Mr. Hussein kept that pistol solely to bluff the Iranians into thinking he was dangerous...
... but the emperor truly had no WMDs...
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