January 26, 2005

Saddam's Rock and Roll Fantasy

It's got to be great to have your own country; whatever you say is, by definition, true.

For example, you can lead your country into wars where you get your ass kicked, come home (short a bunch of soldiers) and declare victory. Even better, you can draw cool cartoon pictures about it and make murals and monuments and stuff. Those two big swords, Victory Arches, in some of my pictures, are to commemorate the "victory" of Iraq in the Iran/Iraq war. The hands holding the swords are even said to be exact matches of Saddam's hands too.

But then it gets better. The APO, Army Post Office, where you can send and receive mail at the same price as if you were shipping it from the US, is in some old government building (er ... in a socialist state they're all government buildings, but you get the idea). There's a mural on the ceiling depicting the Gulf War -- and Iraq's victory therein.

It might be the funniest thing I've seen here.

You can see pictures of the Iraqis charging forward, with their dark uniforms and Saddam-like mustaches. You can see the coalition forces fleeing and then you can see the Iraqis routing them. One Iraqi solider has a blond-haired coalition soldier in a headlock, another is smashing an enemy in the face with the butt of his rifle, a third is shooting fleeing soldiers in the back. Best of all there's a US tank on fire and Iraqi aircraft controlling the sky (with jets that were old in '91).

No one would dare say anything to the contrary under Saddam, but I got to tell you, this nut job had one heck of a fantasy life. Click here to check out Saddam's Rock and Roll Fantasy.

Note the names on the camp containing the APO on the way out -- Steel Dragon and Wolfpack, clearly American military names, which is the final irony of the fantasy mural located therein.

Posted by rick at January 26, 2005 12:20 PM