Bush keeps Saddam's pistol as a trophy

[theoceansnerves]

i looked to see if this had been posted in GD before, i don't think it has?

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) keeps in his White House offices a trophy of one his high points in the Iraq (news - web sites) war, the pistol that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) held when soldiers pulled him from his underground hideaway.

Military specialists mounted the sidearm, and soldiers who helped in the deposed Iraqi president's capture presented it to the president, the White House said Sunday. The president keeps the gun in a small study adjoining the Oval Office.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20040530/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_saddam_s_gun_1

[ibegurpard]

1. I think that's just fucking creepy.

A TROPHY? :puke:

[theoceansnerves]

3. it's fucking sick

it's just so he can play war hero again, like when he was in the pilot's suit landing on the aircraft carrier.

someone, tom ridge i think, has a piece of the wtc on his desk. sick effing people.

[Leprechan29]

6. Weren't the troops punished for bringing trophies home?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

30. You see...

* wanted his stuffed head hanging on the wall, but Rove advised it was out of fashion. So he settled for the gun. Ah well, you can't have everything.

[JohnLocke]

35. LMAO (nt).

[Heyo]

2. I wish I had that....

Quite the colectors item.....

[nostamj]

4. right next to the shattered skull of a WTC jumper

encased in lucite no doubt...

there's no end to the sickness of all things bush*

[Sandpiper]

5. I'm surprised he didn't have

Uday and Qusay's heads mounted.

[bobbieinok]

17. that was my 'sick' initial reaction, too

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[kodi]

8. "he tried to kill my daddy" so i took america to war & killed thousands

for bush to gloat like gollum over such banalities is beyond creepy. its criminally insane.

[peekaloo]

9. well I wanted to make a "final moments in the bunker" joke

but I'll refrain.

:evilgrin:

[vpigrad]

10. Why hasn't he been arrested for that?

Handguns (thankfully) are illegal in DC. How does this moron get away with flouting the law like that?

Yet another case of a violent idiot worshiping a violent device. I will never understand those people. What's the attraction to something so harmful?

[JayS]

12. The handgun law exempts people...

...above a certain level of wealth. The law is meant for the little people with lives too insignificant to need protection.

[Fescue4u]

16. DC Guns laws do not apply to the ruling class.

Just us peons.

[buff2]

11. Bu$h is one sick SOB

He has a sick obsession of killing people.May that bastard burn in hell.

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[banana republican]

13. Sorry Dubya

but it was bought & paid for by the US government

e.g. IT ain't yours.

[OneBlueSky]

14. how fucking juvenile . . . this guy has the brains and the insight . . .

of an 11-year-old . . . how anyone can still be supporting him is beyond me . . .

[MarkTwain]

15. Just Proves What A...

.... Totally Sick Fuck stole the nation's house some three years ago.

Just imagine, if you dare, that perverted piece of crap caressing his "pistol" with that gnarly sick smirk on his face right in the middle of the oval office. Christ, what a grotesque image.

Damn you, John Kerry, if you don't ground him into the electoral dirt come November. Otherwise, this majestic two hundred year experiement is over; close the laboratory doors, the virus will have prevailed.

[Blue_Roses]

18. wow

"Damn you, John Kerry, if you don't ground him into the electoral dirt come November. Otherwise, this majestic two hundred year experiement is over; close the laboratory doors, the virus will have prevailed."


well said!

[Bozita]

19. Yes, while dressed in a flight suit. Dress-up is important...

...to those who can't honorably wear one in real life.

Why do I feel that I'm trapped in a classroom ruled by an arrogant special-ed student?

[mockmonkey]

20. Well you know how

Serial killers are. They like to keep trophies and they never see their victims as human.

This Serial killer doesn't like to get his hair mussed.

[kentuck]

21. Happiness is a warm gun..

He fondles it in the same room that Monica was fondling Clinton's tool...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=2&u=/nm/20040530/pl_nm/bush_saddam_gun_dc

<snip>
The magazine quoted a visitor who had been shown the gun, which is kept in a small study off the Oval Office where Bush displays memorabilia. It is the same room where former President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) had some of his encounters with former intern Monica Lewinsky.


Bush shows Saddam's gun to select visitors, telling them it is unloaded, both now and when Saddam was captured, Time reported.


"He really liked showing it off," Time quoted a visitor as saying. "He was really proud of it."

[Disturbed]

22. No. He shouldn't shoot himself before

he shoots Cheney.

[robbedvoter]

24. he also has there his scorecards with his enemies pics - some with "X"

on them. he doesn'y brag about the shrunked heads he speaks to every night at 9:30, before going to sleep.

[MarkTwain]

25. Yep. I had forgotten...

... about those cards which were given some prominent coverage for about a week or so last year.

Think about this sick puppy: those cards and that gun. And this is the man, for lack of a better word, who has his finger on the nuclear button.

Moreover, he's a friggin' wingnut fundie as well. Talk about a match in a room knee-deep in gasoline.

[spanone]

26. What a macho man, and a prick. How proud he must be?

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

27. sick

[UTUSN]

28. Under "New" Management n/t

[OldGuy]

29. "Bush keeps Saddam's pistol as a trophy"

I really don't see the problem.

Do I need to already be angry at the President to understand?

[MarkTwain]

31. DC Gun Laws! Courtesy of "Rude Pundit"

5/31/2004

"And What About Those Other Little Firearm Laws?:

See previous post for more about President Bush's ownership of Saddam Hussein's handgun - a gift from the troops, allegedly. Exactly how may laws, federal and D.C., might the President be breaking with his possession of that firearm? Did he receive a background check for the transfer of ownership? Is Bush licensed to possess a firearm in a federal facility? The District of Columbia prohibits firearms to be gifts. How many people are implicated in Bush's firearm possession?

And, of course, ignorance of the law does not excuse the potential crimes."

// posted by Rude One @ 10:42 AM

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_rudepundit_archive.html#108601517111673932


"It'd Only Be Cooler If Saddam's Lifeless Hand Was Attached To It:

In the realm of the "Ya gotta be fuckin' kiddin' me" is this: apparently our President keeps Saddam Hussein's gun, the one he had when he was captured from the "spider hole," in a study off the side of the Oval Office. Bush shows it to visitors; he is "proud of it" because, it seems, or so it is said, it reminds the President of how "proud" he is of the troops.

Oh, sweet castration image, Bush brandishing Saddam's gun, his trophy, his medal that he'll never toss over a wall, the unloaded cock of the dictator. Oh, how Bush must caress that burnished metal, polishing it over and over and simmering in primal vengeful bloodlust. Goddamn, Bush must think, how he he'd love to shove that pistol up Saddam's ass, smiling at Hussein, making him wonder if he's gonna fire it. "Try to kill my Daddy, shithead? Is it loaded, motherfucker? Does this feel like a weapon of mass destruction?" Yeah, it's good to be the President so you can pretend you've got heads mounted on the wall, like the great white hunter.

One does wonder if Bush is following D.C. laws in reference to the ownership of a working handgun - Does Bush get around registration laws? You know, it's illegal to own a handgun in D.C. unless it was registered prior to 1976. Licensing laws? And if he's breaking the law, isn't this like Capone and tax evasion, and we can finally, at last, jail this petty tyrant?

// posted by Rude One @ 9:15 AM

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_rudepundit_archive.html#108601040090379847

[newyorican]

32. To bad it's not shaped like a pretzel...

:evilgrin:

[Canuckistanian]

33. Interesting psychological quirk

Symbolically "castrating" his enemies and keeping trophies of their symbols of power. Probably a big symbolic message to his father, to whom he never could quite measure up to. Very Freudian.
I'd be interested to hear what a real psychologist thinks of that.

[neebob]

34. More on Saddam's gun

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1690287
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1695461
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1692467