Saddam's film collection...
Category: News Commentary...
Posted Monday, April 07, 2003 at 12:59 PM [GMT-6]

The Wall Street Journal reports that US troops are leaving their marks on one of Saddam's palaces in Baghdad:

In the heart of Baghdad, American soldiers who reached the gold-and-blue-domed New Presidential Palace used the toilets, rifled through documents in the bombed-out compound, and helped themselves to ashtrays, pillows, gold-painted Arab glassware and other souvenirs.

Get ready for the "I-told-you-sos" to start. First, it's the gold-painted Arab glassware, and then the oilfields.

I was more interested in this:

The palace had been stripped of most personal items, but the building boasted a sophisticated audio-video system. Troops looking in one cabinet found a collection of pirated movies, "Les Miserables" among them.

Remind me again..."Les Miserables" is set where? The irony is wonderful.

But the really great thing is that this is likely to completely silence the Hollywood apologists. Saddam's murdering ways may be overlooked ("it's a cultural thing, you know"), but, by golly, we WILL NOT TOLERATE piracy of movies!