# What 'souvenirs' would YOU take from Saddam's palace? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 9, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451 "2003-04-09T00:47:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/1 "2003-04-09T00:47:08Z")
OK, here’s a poll for y’all…Seeing as U.S. forces have captured some of Saddam’s main Presidential Palaces in Baghdad, I was wondering…If you were among the troops who had seized Chez Saddam, what would you have taken home as a Souvenir? I can’t speak for everyone else, but _I_ would have taken the toilet seat from the master bathroom. And maybe the remote control to the TV. Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/2 "2003-04-09T01:07:17Z")
A friend got a portrait of Milosovic from a Kosovar police station that he hangs in his basement crapper. I’d want to get one of Saddam so that he can start a collection of evil pieces of shit in his bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/3 "2003-04-09T04:10:52Z")
Well, I am sure his palace has a nice weapons collection for the guards, so I call dibs on that. Especially if I can get a chrome-plated Ak-47. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Payton\_s\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Payton\_s\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payton_s_Servant)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/4 "2003-04-09T04:16:30Z")
His collection of pornos. Apparently he has more than 25,000 pornos on video/DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/5 "2003-04-09T04:29:15Z")
All those dart-boards, they’re on every damn wall! What are his tastes? Maybe some of the chairs would…no wait, I would be sat on them thinking “saddam sat here”. No, I don’t want anything thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/6 "2003-04-09T10:34:15Z")
Probably nothing, insofar as ripping out the fixtures might be seen by some as casting doubt on the justifications for the invasion: U.S. SPOKESPERSON: Yes, once again let me assure the Iraqi people, the United States is _liberating_ your country, not invading it. We’re simply interested in securing peace in the Middle East by promoting democracy and confiscating weapons of mass destruction. It was never about the oil, America is _not at all_ interested in seizing Iraqi wealth… RANDOM U.S. MARINE: Woo hoo! I got a gold-plated ashtray and an antique ivory chess set! Hey, help me get this tapestry off the wall, dude… –But that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![Breezy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/7 "2003-04-09T15:36:19Z")
I know this isn’t the point of the previous poster, but an ashtray from Saddam’s place would be kind of neat. hee hee ---
**Author:** ![foostav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@foostav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foostav)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/8 "2003-04-09T16:36:00Z")
Anthrax, Tabun, hopefully a nuke. Maybe I would sell them on E-bay. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/9 "2003-04-09T21:10:21Z")
Yeah, where did all the nukes go, anyways? Humph. I’d try to steal a toilet. Because shit, how often in life do you get the chance to make off with an evil dictator’s crapper andship it off to your own bathroom? ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/10 "2003-04-09T22:59:26Z")
I’d take one of his uniforms, a hat, a journal (if he kept one), a flag, or something like that. Nothing major. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/11 "2003-04-09T23:42:47Z")
Screw souvenirs. I would be looking for cash. Or art. Or precious stones & gems. ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/12 "2003-04-10T02:29:52Z")
I’d like one of those giant Saddam statues, for the living room. Every week it would be redone…I’m thinking a month long period of Saddam as every member of the Village People, then Saddam striking a pose in some frilly pink lingere, Saddam with a feather boa and a cocktail dress, Saddam as Dorothy, and, my personal favorite, Saddam being ass-raped by a larger, meaner looking statue of an Alternate Evil Dictator. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/13 "2003-04-10T06:02:53Z")
Any refrigerator magnets he might have. And music boxes. For my collections! ---
**Author:** ![stragoiriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@stragoiriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stragoiriah)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/14 "2003-04-10T07:07:37Z")
pervert that I am,I must have a pair of his under wear-hhmmmm.-boxers or briefs-hehe ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/15 "2003-04-10T14:20:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Orange Skinner \* > \*\*I’d like one of those giant Saddam statues…being ass-raped by a larger, meaner looking statue of an Alternate Evil Dictator. \*\* :eek: For the LIVING ROOM??? Won’t it block the view of the TV? ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/16 "2003-04-10T20:05:50Z")
A friend of mine was in the army with a guy that had a Rolex he stole when they raided Manuel Norriega’s house. I thought that was pretty slick. ---
**Author:** ![dman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f0a364/32.png) [@dman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dman)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/17 "2003-04-10T20:44:35Z")
Can somebody explain why looting the all the bad office furniture and second-hand tires is such a hot option? All I see on TV the last two days is people carrying office chairs around. I mean, is that the sign of high status somewhere, or what? The pictures I’ve seen of the bathrooms aren’t very impressive, so maybe a seat with three levers on it is about the limit of the ‘wealth’ to be found. ---
**Author:** ![donnah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@donnah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donnah)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/18 "2003-04-10T20:55:54Z")
got my eye on that bidet… Interesting to me that this person whose people were so impoverished would have the balls to even own one…a real status symbol I dare say… ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/19 "2003-04-10T22:36:58Z")
I’d like to go on an adventure with my ragtag misfit buddies searching for a legendary stash of gold somewhere in Iraq with hilarious results. ---
**Author:** ![something\_clever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@something\_clever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/something_clever)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/20 "2003-04-10T22:47:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ranchoth \* > \*\* > I can’t speak for everyone else, but _I_ would have taken the toilet seat from the master bathroom. And maybe the remote control to the TV. > \*\* haha, sounds like you’re planning to try to get some DNA and clone saddam… hmm… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451.md?page=2)