The New York Times has posted this article about how Iraq is dealing with all the crazy Saddam kitsch they have left over from his twenty-whatever years as dictator. Do they keep it or destroy it?

As we all know, the only thing Saddam loved more than building palaces and making videos of his sons’ cabal gang-raping women was commissioning works of public art to commemorate his reign and his commitment to the Iraqi people. I mean, what a waste, an unconscionable waste, to just throw this shit away. We don’t mean to suggest that there needs to be some kind of Saddam museum or anything like that. But just doing the Google Image search to find something suitable for this post turned up scant results.

Just as you wouldn’t want to go to all the trouble of executing Saddam without at least making a video to post on YouTube, why would you destroy all the Saddam commemorative art without at least taking pictures of it first? Granted, the heroic men and women who are on the ground in Iraq fighting for democracy taking it upon themselves to do a lot of this work. But a more systematic cataloging effort should be undertaken. We’re just saying.

Posted on Sunday, April 8th, 2007 at 12:46 pm in Iraq. Follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.