Saddam was executed on this day.
Saddam was executed on this day.
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I remember when this was all over the news. I was...I wanna say...16 or 17 at the time and bagging groceries at the grocery store. They literally wheeled in a TV on one of those TV stands when you were in school back in the day when the teacher was going to put on a movie just so customers could shop and watch the breaking news of Saddam being hanged up at "the courtesy booth" near the front of the store.
When I say to kids much younger than me that the Bush years were much more surreal than the Trump years, this is part of what I'm thinking of/what I mean. And I am not someone who gives a shit about Saddam at all. The dude was a fucking monster but who the hell are/were we to act like we were some "humanitarians" or whatever...? Get the fuck out of here.
Adults were cheering and crying tears of joy. And I mean the whitest, fattest, Americans you can picture. Just standing at the TV, some of whom chanting "USA! USA!", etc. What a fucking wild ass day that was.
Absolutely bonkers. I was around the same age in 06, just about to graduate high school. I remember the overall troop worship and the attitude that the president could do no wrong. It was a bleak time, who would have guessed it only got worse?