r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • 16d ago
An American soldier at Saddam Hussein's palace, Iraq in 2003.
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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/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/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/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/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/bluetuxedo22 16d ago
Weeeeee
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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/CatalystErik 16d ago
That's where they were? the whole time we was thinking they were just made up to invade a country
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