Bush Keeps Saddam Gun at White House

[andino]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=2&u=/nm/20040530/pl_nm/bush_saddam_gun_dc">http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=2&u=/nm/20040530/pl_nm/bush_saddam_gun_dc
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A handgun that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was clutching when U.S. forces captured him in a hole in Iraq (news - web sites) last December is now kept by President Bush (news - web sites) at the White House, a spokesman confirmed on Sunday.


Time magazine, which first disclosed the gun's location, said military officials had it mounted after it was seized from Saddam near his hometown of Tikrit last year, and soldiers involved in the capture gave it to Bush.


The magazine quoted a visitor who had been shown the gun, which is kept in a small study off the Oval Office where Bush displays memorabilia. It is the same room where former President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) had some of his encounters with former intern Monica Lewinsky.


Bush shows Saddam's gun to select visitors, telling them it is unloaded, both now and when Saddam was captured, Time reported.


"He really liked showing it off," Time quoted a visitor as saying. "He was really proud of it."

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Nice to see that Bush has a trophy. It's a shame that it cost 800 Americans lives.

[ronnykmarshall]

1. I hear ya!

Bush probably needs to have a gun to get it up anyway.

[andino]

3. Hehehe

Maybe that's the reason for the war. Impotence.

[freetobegay]

2. I wonder if he will do the honorable thing & put one bullet in it.

[andino]

4. I kinda wonder if

he has done any coke with it. What do they call it? Shotguning it?

[CO Liberal]

5. I Thought Handguns Were Banned in the District of Columbia

Can we get Pretzelboy arrested on gun law violations?

:-)

[Wickerman]

6. Glad little Georgie gets to collec this trophies of war

while the rest of the country give up its sons and daughters. Please make that man go away.

[Moderator]

7. Duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=591609