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alp227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 06:38 PM Original message |
Qur'an etched in Saddam Hussein's blood poses dilemma for Iraq leaders |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. Dethklok didn't even think of that. Nor did Vlad Tepes. |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. Well, I'd say those who needed retribution... |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 12:25 AM Response to Reply #2 |
20. I couldn't agree more. I was horrified by |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 07:48 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. 'Human decency' is soooo 20th century. n/t |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 07:59 AM Response to Reply #20 |
25. If I remember correctly, Saddam was the most visited foreign head of state to the Reagan/poppy |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
3. Saddam was secular but also a politician in the Islamic world. NT |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
4. It's part of their history... |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
5. Once again, reality beats up fiction and takes its lunch money |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 09:24 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. There are MANY plot devices that I go... nope |
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nolabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
6. Definitely belongs in a museum. |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 09:09 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Then you risk it becoming a sort of shrine |
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Bragi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 10:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Do odious artifacts always create shrines? |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 11:21 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I'm not sure about that |
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Bragi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 03:00 PM Response to Reply #16 |
26. Case in point -- the "Luitpoldhain" in Nuremberg |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 07:51 AM Response to Reply #10 |
24. I think they'd try to clone him. |
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LawnKorn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. According to the American Red Cross, Saddam was giving blood at four times the recommended rate |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
8. And we think US politics is weird. nt |
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Lord Magus (443 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
9. The Iranian spy puts in his two cents: |
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BenzoDia (375 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
12. Alright, so 27 liters of blood over two years is about over a liter a month. |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
13. This sounds like something from a Vincent Price movie. n/t |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
14. Big fucking deal. I transcribed The Kama Sutra with my own sperm. n/t |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 12:11 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Did you do it at a rate of two pints per month? |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 03:50 PM Response to Reply #18 |
29. Yes, I did. And I didn't even get a prostate infection. n/t |
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RZM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-19-10 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
17. He must have got the idea from that Kiss comic book n/t |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
19. Toss it. There has to be a procedure for destroying used/damaged ones after service life /nt |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
21. I'd burn it |
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Kablooie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 02:28 AM Response to Original message |
22. Now that's an interesting idea. I think I'll do a copy of Dracula in my blood. |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
27. Fascinating. |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
28. I can't help but feel bad for the calligrapher of this work. |
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marshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
30. How long before it's offered up on eBay? |
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marasinghe (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-20-10 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
31. too bad for saddam. he's upstaged even in death - by his american masters. |
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