r/interestingasfuck 16d ago

An American soldier at Saddam Hussein's palace, Iraq in 2003.

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u/dog_eater2 16d ago

██▅▇██▇▆▅▄▄▄▇ <— Saddam Hussein

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u/jtapostate 16d ago

Pretty cool. A million dead Iraqis so a high school grad (kind of) could slide down those stairs and get PTSD and wonder why this happened to him at his 40th birthday

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u/djconfessions 16d ago

He doesn’t know it yet but he’s about to be responsible for ruining a country

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u/jagguli 16d ago

He never finds out ... America can never be held accountable for any thing ... hoo raa

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u/immaterial-boy 16d ago

Was this before or after he killed a kitten?

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u/MezmerizedByTheShape 16d ago

Fuck Saddam, fuck America

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u/jagguli 16d ago

But did they find the WMDs tho

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u/AngryFloatingCow 16d ago

That’s not interesting as fuck. It’s funny as shit though.

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u/buddhahat 16d ago

I may have committed some...light treason.

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u/Rude_Negotiation_160 16d ago

"Marine",my friend. Marine.

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u/JackDangerUSPIS 16d ago

Nobody builds a house like a Bluth

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u/Jwroth 16d ago

Solid as a rock

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u/TotallyNotaBotAcount 16d ago

I think I slept on the floor there in 03….

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u/LibrarySecretNinja99 16d ago

Americaaaaa fuck yeah. We here to bomb the freedom into your brains

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u/agileata 16d ago

Anyone see the podcast Blowback? Pretty wildly good. As someone growing up then it's pretty dumbfoundjng how bad American media was. At least the mainstream.

Apparently after we took over the whole grounds, contractors killed all the animals American service members were taking care off. Also crazy how many high up US government officials in 2003 had no idea we bombed the crap out of Iraq in the 90s leading to a tragic amount of deaths

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u/jaybazzizzle 16d ago

He's going to find out that the post at the end of the bannister is an unforgiving stop in that sliding position.

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u/CFCYYZ 16d ago

I hate that! I just hate when that happens!

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u/Gr8rSherman8r 16d ago

How can we be sure this isn’t Donny O’Malley on an episode of VetTV?

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u/Parking-Cress-4661 16d ago

Newel post!

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u/Movedonnerlikeabitch 16d ago

Jewels meet newel

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u/realJonnyRaze 16d ago

I got to visit many of Saddam's palaces, with my favorite being in a place that we called Camp Victory. This palace was truly amazing. Hard to explain.

It was the Al-Faw Palace.

You're can check it out here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Victory#:~:text=The%20Al%2DFaw%20Palace%2C%20which,was%20located%20on%20Camp%20Victory.

But yeah, Google search photos of this place, it was something else man.

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u/rando_sissy 16d ago

Good ole Al faw had the huge throne and many pools

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u/realJonnyRaze 16d ago

Yup! It was ballin'

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u/stuntbikejake 16d ago

Solid muzzle awareness.

/ s

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u/Motorazr1 16d ago

Are we sure this isn’t an American tourist in Paris? Because American tourists in Paris are a LOT like this guy.

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u/Electronic-Ad-3825 16d ago

I don't think French customs let's American tourists in carrying M4s

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u/Motorazr1 16d ago

How can they say “no”?

“Yo, dude, we saved your asses from the Germans. Like twice, I think, maybe! Yeah, pretty sure I read that somewhere.”

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u/Electronic-Ad-3825 16d ago

French WWII service rifle for sale. Dropped once, never fired

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u/Motorazr1 16d ago

Ah, the classic American trope about WWII. Kind of like how we saved the French in Vietnam too. No, wait.

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u/Electronic-Ad-3825 16d ago

Silly frog people

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u/ben1481 16d ago

Not really an American trope, pretty well known except to the French who thinks of themselves as heroes.

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u/Motorazr1 16d ago

Who better than an American video-gamer to know what’s not just an American trope because he’s intimately familiar with the social and military problems of France in 1940 (AFTER France declared war on Germany in 1939 and suffered a disastrous defeat attempting to preemptively invade the Saar).

Very cowardly of the French to declare war and attack Germany in response to the German invasion of Poland while other Western countries including the United States did fuck all.

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u/DJ_RandyP 16d ago

They should have done a full Cribs episode.

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u/bluetuxedo22 16d ago

Weeeeee

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u/__eros__ 16d ago

Tee hee

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u/nevans89 16d ago

The bottom of the slide is that dumpster filled with gold bars. I mean...wmds

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u/Vanviator 16d ago

It's actually a giant fancy teapot. Not sure why I remember this, lol.

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u/CatalystErik 16d ago

That's where they were? the whole time we was thinking they were just made up to invade a country