So, George Bush keeps Saddam’s gun under his pillow, more or less.
Time magazine, which first disclosed the gun’s location, said military officials had it mounted after it was seized from Saddam near his hometown of Tikrit last year, and soldiers involved in the capture gave it to Bush.
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.”
The Rude Pundit has more (and follow the link to see if George is breaking DC firarms laws by posessing his little trophy):
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.
Out of the hand of one dictator and into the other.. little ironic isent it?
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