GQ Magazine interviews Saddam Hussein

As far as deposed evil dictators go, this Saddam guy sounds OK.

Thrust unexpectedly into the role of prison guards for Saddam
Hussein, a group of young American soldiers found the deposed Iraqi
leader to be a friendly, talkative "clean freak" who loved Raisin
Bran for breakfast, did his own laundry and insisted he was still
president of Iraq, says a report published on Monday.

GQ magazine's July issue says Saddam greatly admired President
Reagan and thought President Clinton was "OK," but had harsh words
for both President Bushes, each of whom went to war against him.

"The Bush father, son, no good," one of the soldiers, Cpl. Jonathan
"Paco" Reese, 22, of Millville, Pa., quotes Saddam as saying.

Me too! I don't particularly care for them either.

[...]

A third soldier, Spc. Jesse Dawson, quoted Saddam as saying of Bush,
"`He knows I have nothing, no mass weapons. He knows he'll never find
them.'"

Yep! I've been saying that for years now.

[...]

O'Shea said when he told him he was not married, Saddam "started telling me what to do." "He was like, `you gotta find a good woman. Not too smart, not too dumb. Not too old, not too young. One that can cook and clean.'"

OK, maybe he's a little backward on the women's rights things and equality of the sexes, but it's nice of him to give the soldier some advice and not get hung up on superficial stuff, right?

Then he smiled, made what O'Shea interpreted as a "spanking" gesture,
laughed and went back to washing his clothes in the sink.

Oh yeah, that's my boy! I guess this spanking thing is catching on all over.

According to the author, Saddam told his guards that when the
Americans invaded Iraq in March 2003, he "tried to flee in a taxicab as
the tanks were rolling in," and the U.S. planes attacked the palace to
which he intended to escape rather than the one he was in, injuring some
of his bodyguards.

"But then he started laughing," recalls Reese. "He goes, `America, they
dumb. They bomb wrong palace.'"

And he has just as much respect for U.S. "Intelligence" as I do.

If it weren't for all that cold blooding killing and stuff, I might like to hang out with this guy.