# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Christina25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8edcca/32.png) [@Christina25](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Christina25)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/21 "2003-04-10T23:03:35Z")
His head on a silver platter ---
**Author:** ![leafrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@leafrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leafrog)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/22 "2003-04-11T05:37:50Z")
A little off subject, but I keep thinking I would love to have the head of the statue they dragged around the streets of Baghdad. I would prop it up in a corner of the garden, maybe turn it into a fountain. I can just see it, surrounded by lots of greenery, water spurting from his mouth in a beautiful arc… ---
**Author:** ![The\_MacDairmuid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_MacDairmuid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_MacDairmuid)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/23 "2003-04-11T07:32:08Z")
Things made of gold. ---
**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/24 "2003-04-11T13:36:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Payton’s Servant \* > \*\*His collection of pornos. Apparently he has more than 25,000 pornos on video/DVD. \*\* Holy Cow, really? I wonder what Iraqi porn is like. _Bedouin sluts gone wild_, maybe? Unfortunately, even if I were to break into Saddam’s palace and raid his porno stash, the titles would probably all be in Arabic. I’d still lift and few, bring 'em back and find someone to translate 'em for me. Then I’d sell 'em on EBay. Long live capitalism! .:Nichol:. ---
**Author:** ![woolly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ebca7d/32.png) [@woolly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woolly)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/25 "2003-04-11T13:48:23Z")
The framed photograph of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on March 24th, 1984, autographed by both men. ---
**Author:** ![StanDup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@StanDup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StanDup)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451/26 "2003-04-11T20:54:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Terrifel \* > \*\*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. \*\* LMAO! You owe me a new keyboard, a monitor, a mouse, a tablet, both speakers… This sounds like the type of thing that would be on The Simpsons! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-would-you-take-from-saddams-palace/167451.md?page=1)