A museum will be built in Iraq dedicated to Saddam Hussein. A spokesman says the museum is for all the people of Iraq, future generations and visitors from of all over the world to ‘admire’. Surely something was lost in translation! Read more about this below, see photos and a video.
Iraq’s Saddam Hussein Museum
Saddam Hussein was despised by many of his people but the Iraqi government still intends to memorialize him by opening a museum filled with weapons, statues, paintings, furniture and other kinds of memorabilia that belonged to the brutal dictator.
“These possessions are for the Iraqi people,” said Abdul Zahraa al-Talqani, a tourism and antiquities ministry spokesman, adding that a committee would be formed to find a site for the museum.
“We will look for a big building. I think one of the presidential palaces in Baghdad probably will be the place of the museum,” said Talqani.
The items collected and catalogued by the US military in the past six years are being handed back to the Iraqi Government, which will consider a site for what would undoubtedly become a major tourist attraction. Hey, why not make money off the now, very dead dictator? He, after all, made billions off of them.
A second Saddam museum, currently an exhibition, is also being erected in Iraq and this one by the presiding judge at his trial. The Saddam’s Torture Museum is dedicated to the chronicling of atrocities under Saddam. The intent being to allow Iraqis, now and in the future, to see up close such macabre mementos of mass executions, torture, and other atrocities committed in Saddam’s decades-long rule. It is a very graphic place.
This Saddam Torture Museum will also have a research center where legal researchers or historians can comb through 26 million documents, including the handwritten orders to crush opposition from minority Kurds, which led to the death of tens of thousands. Now that part sounds very cool to me.
And at this writing, I was unable to find information on the Iraqi’s plans to have a museum dedicated to the people of the United States, or to George W. Bush, or to our military, contractors, and allies who liberated them from the brutality of Saddam.
More photos and a video from Iraq’s Saddam Hussein Museum: Saddam’s Torture Museum are below.
Iraq’s Saddam Hussein Museum Photos
Iraq’s Saddam Hussein Museum Video
April 6th, 2009 at 6:10 am
And at this writing, I was unable to find information on the Iraqi’s plans to have a museum dedicated to the people of the United States, or to George W. Bush, or to our military, contractors, and allies who liberated them from the brutality of Saddam.
Yeah I wouldn’t hold your breath for that one. And yeah, I sort of agree with your point, but a museum dedicated to GW Bush would be a total joke. Honoring the soldiers themselves makes a whole lot more sense.
April 6th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Sean Penn and Dick Dubin can be there for opening and give an apologetic tour of the museum.
April 6th, 2009 at 8:21 am
hey Rhayader
absolutely our military did the heavy lifting and paid a price in blood and treasure but i feel gwb was the driving force behind it all and kept the cause of liberty for the iraqis on the front burner.
it certainly may never happen because of the current pc sentiments about him, but there is no doubt he liberated millions.
April 6th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Maybe they’ll name a street after him.
While Rhayader made a good point on the troops doing the lifting theres still the logic that most of these soldiers volunteerd with and on the behalf of the same agenda, beliefs, values and principles that drove Bush to go into Iraq.
These soldiers heard what Bush had to say and went in supporting his sentiments. Bush led this charge.
But… Rhayaders right in that I wouldnt get my hopes to high only because theres alot of ungrateful schmucks who have no idea what weve done for them
April 6th, 2009 at 9:09 am
@Kate: Given his 8 years of unprecedented lockdowns on our constitutional rights to liberty and privacy, I have a real hard time considering Dubya to be a “liberator” of any sort.
Given the documents and allegations that have trickled out over the years (the Downing Street Memo being the most revealing), it seems clear that GW had little concern about those citizens he was supposedly liberating.
Look, I am not one of those kooks who says they were better off under Saddam; the man was pure evil and deserved everything he got. Still though, I don’t think GW deserves credit for anything other than his political ambition.
April 6th, 2009 at 9:48 am
” Given his 8 years of unprecedented lockdowns on our constitutional rights to liberty and privacy, I have a real hard time considering Dubya to be a “liberator” of any sort.
How many people exactly have been victim to this lockdown on our constitutional rights and liberties ?
I ‘d like to know if its anywhere close to the amount of those whom he freed in another country that has nothing to do with our constitution.
” don’t think GW deserves credit for anything other than his political ambition.”
Bush deserves credit in so many areas its not even funny
It was that ambition that brought that freedom.
He knew exactly what he was doing when he went into Iraq. The ulterior motives besides just liberation that created the positive collateral effects for decades to come were pure genius in this world we live in today.
How you can say that no one was better off under Saddam and say Bush was not a liberator in the same sentence is beyond me.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Funny how liberals would be singing a different if Al Gore, Hillary or Barry had been President in 2001 and had reacted the same way given the intell they had at the time.
They would be calling for the country to be renamed after them.
They hate Bush because he had backbone and was willing to do what was right but not popular.
Look at what Barry in Charge said about a world without nuclear weapons being possible because of him this weekend. Sounds good, but he knows that will never happen. Yet he is going to let Iran and North Korea test and build them. He is spineless and makes a nice speech, but that is not leadership.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:29 am
@Micky: I don’t have the statistics and I don’t really have the time to research them. Even if we accept the questionable assertion that Iraqi citizens have been “freed”, I have no clue how large their population is.
I do know that Bush (and Clinton before him) ratcheted up the Drug War to the point where three quarters of a million people are being arrested for marijuana possession each year.
I also know that he was a champion of the PATRIOT Act, which has continually been revised after the Supreme Court has named provision after provision to be unconstitutional. He also set up that bastion of diplomacy and adherence to international guidelines (and US law) known as Guantanamo Bay.
Look, I know I’m not convincing you of anything here. And yeah, no matter what his motivations were, some of the things he did made a positive difference.
In the end, you have your opinion of the guy, and I have mine. I respect what you say because you can usually show a foundation of rational thought. So long as I am not dealing with blind fanaticism I have no problem agreeing to disagree.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:40 am
“Micky: I don’t have the statistics and I don’t really have the time to research them. Even if we accept the questionable assertion that Iraqi citizens have been “freed”, I have no clue how large their population is.
I do know that Bush (and Clinton before him) ratcheted
Micky: I don’t have the statistics and I don’t really have the time to research them. Even if we accept the questionable assertion that Iraqi citizens have been “freed”, I have no clue how large their population is.
With all due respect please dont be ridiculous.
There is no way any amount of Americans have lost any rights or freedoms in comparison with those liberated in Iraq.
“do know that Bush (and Clinton before him) ratcheted up the Drug War to the point where three quarters of a million people are being arrested for marijuana possession each year.”
Most of that can be placed on Reagan as many of these laws were already on the books from his admin. And then theres the fact that regardless of how we feel about the drug laws the majority of those in prison are guilty under laws drawn in accordance with the constitution until theres an amendment of some sort.
Iraqs population is abot 28 million.
“the total number of people incarcerated for marijuana offences would be 27,900 in state prison and 10,400 in federal prison, for a total of 38,300 marijuana prisoners”
Really, theres not a lot of room there to make a decent comparison
“I also know that he was a champion of the PATRIOT Act, which has continually been revised after the Supreme Court has named provision after provision to be unconstitutional.”
Still I’ll ask how many of us have actually lost our ability to do what we normally do because of the patriot act ? The other day you only were able to give me a couple examples, hardly a comparison the millions freed in Iraq.
” He also set up that bastion of diplomacy and adherence to international guidelines (and US law) known as Guantanamo Bay.”
Whatever, they’re not American citizens and where would you suggest we put them ?
“In the end, you have your opinion of the guy, and I have mine…”
The man did what mant before didnt have the balls or morals to do.
Someone finally went after the monsters, one after it attacked, and the other because he showed potential to attack as he has already in various ways after the initial gulf war.
As a result we establish those collateral benefits I spoke of that strengthen us in the middle east in ways that protect America not just from attacks on the homeland but also preserving the integrity of what produces energy worldwide until we find alternatives.
The largest threat was actually some radical element destroying the oil industry and/or shipping routes etc..
Even though we only get about 20% of our oil from the M.I. an attack on that infrastructure would of had catastrophic results worlwide that would of made this economic recession look like a picnic.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Maybe they’ll make a line of shoes with Bushs name on em
April 6th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I could be totally off base here, but I believe the Saddam Hussein museums are going to be along the lines of the Holocaust museums. Even bad parts of history, especially bad parts of history, need to be remembered so they aren’t repeated.
Like I said, I could be wrong and they are being built to honor him, and I would have a problem with that. It just doesn’t seem that way to me. I wonder if the museums will have anything about their liberation from Saddam.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
rebecca no i think you are exactly right and that they will be similar to the holocaust museums in that they will highlight his atrocities against the iraqi people, however i also think its about saddam the man and his opulence and his greed.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
@Rebecca: From what I can tell, you are exactly right. These museums are perfectly analogous to the Holocaust museums around the world.
Hmmm, maybe that gives new meaning to Cathryn’s idea about a GW Bush museum….
I kid, I kid. W’s just a run-of-the-mill political villain, not a death-dealing Super Villain like Saddam.
April 7th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Rebeccas point made me think about something.
Because of our troops and George Bush the Iraqs now actually have the right to protest so I would imagine if this museum were opened as some sort of positive tribute to Saddam the outcry from the public would be so overwhelming that it would just never happen.
The same groups in Iraq that do want us and our forces to leave are still willing to at least acknowledge and thank us for dealing with Saddam.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:57 am
But America tortures, too. I guess torture is okay only when America tortures, right??