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...potentially dangerous people. It has provoked strident anti-Americanism in the Islamic world and alienated us from millions of Muslims at a time when we should be most concerned with fostering good will. That al Qaeda and other radical Islamic fundamentalists should be so invested in the fate of Saddam??s secular state demonstrates just how polarized matters have become...
...Special Forces. “Their job just seems really fun, like an action movie,” Stern says enviously. The life of an SF is understandably glamorous, as they get to live in the abandoned palaces of former royalty. One night, Stern went over to Saddam??s old palace with some SF’s he had befriended. After “loosening up over a few beers,” Stern was privy to Saddam??s privy. He did not make full use of the facilities, however, because of performance anxiety...
...bits of Baghdad have been seeping into Stern’s life at Harvard. Even in his VES class, Stern can’t seem to get Iraq out of his mind. “For class we’re supposed to be doing a sculpture and somehow Saddam??s face just gets incorporated into it.” Apparently Stern has taken more than a piece of Uday Hussein’s marble wall away from his experience in Iraq...
Eventually, he landed in Iraq and began work in Saddam??s former palace, which the U.S. government continues to use as a makeshift office space...
...night at Saddam??s wore on and one beer turned into three or four, the dark realities of their lives began to surface. During a cigarette break outside the palace, Aaron—a tan, spiky-haired 25-year-old who liked to talk like Mr. T—told me about the time when his convoy got stopped on the outskirts of Kirkuk. Stopped at a checkpoint, a young boy approached Aaron’s truck with an AK-47 in his hands. The child pointed the assault rifle at Aaron and Aaron shot the child...