# Saddam Hussein's Shagadelic Love Palace **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2003, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592 "2003-04-14T09:22:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/1 "2003-04-14T09:22:10Z")
[Saddam Hussein’s “Love Shack” Discovered](http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/14/sprj.irq.saddam.hideaway/index.html) > [@](#): > > Upstairs was a television room with bright blue, pink and yellow throw pillows. The bathroom included a whirlpool bath. The kingsize bed was fitted into an alcove with mirrors on two sides and a fantasy painting on the third. > > The closets and drawers were empty except for a man’s night shirt, two pairs of boxer shorts, two T-shirts and a bath robe – each item individually wrapped in plastic, just as similar items had been in the palaces. > > … > > The home’s 1960s look – parodied in the series of “Austin Powers” spy spoofs – inspired a round of imitations from soldiers slogging door to door. > > “Yeah, baaabeee,” said Carter, doing his best imitation of actor Mike Myers’ character. > > “Shagadelic,” another soldier shouted. > > Indeed, the carpet was navy blue shag. So, who wants to bet where the next Austin Powers movie will be filmed? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/2 "2003-04-14T09:28:23Z")
I loved this information: > [@](#): > > The doors of the town house opened to reveal a playboy’s fantasy straight from the 1960s: mirrored bedroom, lamps shaped like women, airbrushed paintings of a topless blonde woman and a mustached hero battling a crocodile. Yeesh. Tacky. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/3 "2003-04-14T09:32:43Z")
_The luuuuv shack is a little ol’ place where We can hide our @sses…_ > [@](#): > > Another [painting] showed a buxom woman chained to a barren desert mountain ledge, with a huge dragon diving down to kill her with sharpened talons. Even in the details, this guy is severely creepy. And individually wrapped skivvies? What the fuh? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/4 "2003-04-14T09:34:19Z")
Maybe he was afraid the CIA was going to put itching powder in his shorts. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/5 "2003-04-14T09:44:18Z")
But don’t you realize what this _means?_ They found Saddam Hussein’s _boxer shorts!_ His frickin _boxer shorts!!_ They didn’t find Hitler’s boxer shorts, they didn’t find Stalin’s boxer shorts, but they found Saddam’s! Think of the museum possibilities! ---
**Author:** ![chattywine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@chattywine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chattywine)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/6 "2003-04-14T10:36:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*… They found Saddam Hussein’s _boxer shorts!_ His frickin _boxer shorts!!.._ > \*\* Gosh! and I’d always imagined him as a _commando_ sorta guy. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/7 "2003-04-14T11:05:13Z")
There was a hilarious photograph of one of these paintings on the front of the London Sunday Times, with a bemused US solider looking at it. The best way I can describe it is that an airbrushed big-titted blonde naked babe is sitting on an altar casting a ray from her fingertips that turns into a serpent that’s wrapping round a hunky guy with a sword and a blonde mullet, while a flame-eyed demon looks on. I think it reveals something: not only was he a ruthless dictator, but Saddam Hussein clearly played D&D and listened to Whitesnake. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/8 "2003-04-14T11:53:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chattywine \* > \*\*Gosh! and I’d always imagined him as a _commando_ sorta guy. \*\* He struck me as a tight white breifs kind of guy for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/9 "2003-04-14T12:03:08Z")
Whitesnake! Oh my God, now I’ve got this image in my head of Saddam crawling over the hood of a white Jaguar, dressed in a see-thru white dress. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/10 "2003-04-14T12:10:26Z")
Or Saddam in tight leather pants and a shirt slashed to the navel, punching the air and shouting “Rock!” ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/11 "2003-04-14T12:14:01Z")
… clouded in tons and tons of Rock Fog, sluttily dressed peroxide blonds standing beside him, throwing back their burkas and licking their lips. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/12 "2003-04-14T12:15:14Z")
… while Tareq Aziz places one foot on the stage monitor as he breaks into an Eddy van Halenesque guitar solo. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/13 "2003-04-14T12:19:01Z")
…and Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf sings “rock ‘n’ roll ain’t noise pollution”. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/14 "2003-04-14T12:26:39Z")
I don’t suppose anyone has seen any photos of this place, beyond the rather tame one on the CNN site…? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/15 "2003-04-14T12:44:10Z")
**jjimm** and **Coldie** , _you_ rock. > [@](#): > > a mustached hero battling a crocodile for some reason I foud this detail utterly fascinating ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/16 "2003-04-14T14:26:10Z")
That article had me in stitches, as does this thread. Sunday Sunday Sunday! See the Monsters of Iiiiiiiiii-ROCK! See Saddamsnake open for Black JIHAAAAAD! And Tariq Aziz kicks things off! Beeeeeeeeeeeeeee there! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/17 "2003-04-14T14:43:09Z")
Saddamsnake, that’s classic. I think me and jjimm are gonna call our to-be-founded band Saddamsnake. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/18 "2003-04-14T14:47:08Z")
“And we’re gonna drive you all _Hussein_!” ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/19 "2003-04-14T14:50:38Z")
Saddam’s undies? Hello, E-Bay! P.S.: This is WAY more than I ever wanted to know about Saddam Hussein’s love life. Ew. Ew, ew, ew. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592/20 "2003-04-14T14:57:21Z")
I got your WMD hangin’ right here. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-husseins-shagadelic-love-palace/168592.md?page=2)