Brute's lair to go to US (Saddam's spider hole)

[Gman]

<snip>
THE hole where Saddam Hussein was found is to be taken to America — as a monument to his capture.

US military engineers plan to excavate a huge block of Iraqi soil containing the underground chamber.

It might even be turned into a tourist attraction — with money raised going to relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq.

Commanders want Saddam’s last hiding place to be displayed at the giant Fort Hood military base in Texas.

It is home to the 4th Infantry Division, which seized Saddam on December 13.

US Army spokesman Major Gordon Tate said yesterday in the toppled tyrant’s home city Tikrit: “Our engineers are looking at ways of moving the hole back to the States.”
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How much is this going to cost us??

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oops... forgot the link...http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003590951,00.html

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Oh for Christ's sake!!!!

Is there no end to the depths that these people will stoop to????

[madrchsod]

2. where`s your link???

[OrAnarch]

3. Yahhh...

Put the soil at the September 11th site, right next to the melted down statue of him they pulled down. Then ignorantly ignore they have nothing to do with eachother.

[Lisa]

4. moving a hole?

when you consider the topological implications, that's bizarre.

[Wonk]

7. How many holes does it take to fill the Albert Hall? (link here)

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003590951,00.html

[tinrobot]

5. Link?

Is there a URL for this?

[bahrbearian]

6. Steal their Oil then steal their land, one truck at a time!

[Clark Edwards]

8. Regarding

"THE hole where Saddam Hussein was found is to be taken to America — as a monument to his capture."

Can't we just use the reproduction from MSNBC (thanks to Jon Stewart for that bit!)

[HereSince1628]

9. Wow, you can't bring food into the country from overseas

but we are going to bring in viral, bacterial, and fungal laden Iraqi dirt?

Imagine the decontamination project that is going to go to Halliburton...excuse me but I have a stock purchase to make on-line...

[stevedeshazer]

10. A tourist attraction?!

Could be the start of a new Republican theme park.

Maybe a wax figure of Dick Cheney can be made to periodically pop out holding a jewel-encrusted limited edition Halliburton collection plate.

Pop! Goes The Weasel...

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. How much money

is this going to cost us?

[dusingle]

12. OMG!

Americans are fruit loops. This is shameful. But what do we expect?

[imax2268]

13. step right up

ladies and gentlemen...just $19.95 and you can have your picture taken next to a cardboard cutout of pResident Bush and the "spider hole" that saddam was held...errr...captured in...

[stevedeshazer]

16. $2000 a plate

They can haul the hole around to their campaign appearances.

[aquart]

21. For an extra $2000, you can try it out for yourself.

We'll even put the slab of concrete on it and leave you for a couple of days.

Don't mind the smell. It's part of the experience.

[daleo]

26. It's supposed to be styrafoam

Even though all the pictures that I have seen seem to require two soldiers to lift it. Perhaps it's a particularly heavy type of styrafoam.

[inspectorgadget]

14. It's hillarious

Aren't we a big enough laugh to the rest of the world as it is? Do we really need to waste time and money worrying about digging up a HOLE?

haha... digging up a hole.

[Lisa]

29. yes, doesn't the "hole thing" sound like the kind of errand ...

... that they'd send newbie construction workers to do -- "Find me a skyhook, kid."

Welcome to DU, inspectorgadget!

[htuttle]

33. LOL! That brings up memories....

I'd like a skyhook, a box stretcher, and 2 boxes of muffler bearings, please.

:)

[lostnfound]

30. I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. omg. n/t

[Lorien]

15. Pathetic propaganda

"US Army spokesman Major Gordon Tate said yesterday in the toppled tyrant’s home city Tikrit: “Our engineers are looking at ways of moving the hole back to the States.”"

Hey, Major Tate! How about figuring our how to turn on the lights and water for those Iraqi citizens with your engineers brainpower, and let the repukes built their own "Saddamworld" with their OWN dimes for a change!

MOVING a HOLE...just when you thought the dumbasses couldn't top themselves! :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[arcane1]

17. "where Saddam Hussein was found" is bullshit....

it's where the Kurds left a drugged Saddam for our camera crews to "find"

can we get off this ride now? I wanna go home....

[aquart]

18. This is grotesque.

Maybe they'll put it in the Bush library. They need something instead of books.

[celestia671]

19. Well...

It wouldn't surprise me one bit if the hidey hole wound up being sold on Ebay!

[TheWebHead]

20. wouldn't it be more important

to serve as an Iraqi historical landmark? Bush doesn't seem to care much about Iraqi's historical artifacts, letting the museums get looted, and now as they make history and remove an ugly chapter of their history, you'd think they'd want to make this property Saddam was captured at a historical landmark.

what's next, ship over Saddam's jail cell, and whatever method he's executed with? WTF, how about the body.. Human taxidermy?

[Manix]

22. Are these people fuckin' nuts!!!!!

nt

[KoKo]

23. Wowee! Will it be on display at the Smithsonian, or go on tour starting

next Summer at your local Museum. Man, can't wait to see that spidey hole..... Will they put the styrofoam block that sealed it on display too!

[Rose Siding]

24. This is like getting the shaft

only slightly more rectangular.

Will it require a new supplemental :silly:

[auburnblu]

25. I hope this is a joke

Talk about a waste of money. Why not leave it in Iraq, wouldn't it be appropriate for Iraqis who suffered under this guy to be able to have this as a monument to his fall/evil, whatever.

[ClintonTyree]

27. How does one transport a hole?

What type of container could hold a hole? A very small container could be used, and then upon arriving is the US the hole could be transfered to a much bigger container thus making the hole vastly larger in size. I hope they've thought this all out.

[MidwestMomma]

28. Maybe they can put it next to the displaced 10 commandents monument

ANYTHING is possible with these guys!

[Zero Gravitas]

31. Pathetic

This country has become collectively un-hinged.

[Stefkaskid]

32. Bush's stupidity

Why doesn't the moron in Washington use the money he plans to spend on this stupidity to fix the Medicare Rx bill? He could sure close the "donut hole" with the millions he plans on spending on this!

[Zhade]

44. You answered your own question. Because he's a greedy moron.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[leftchick]

34. Go Ahead! It will backfire on them....

Like "mission accomplished", the plastic turkey and all of their other hairbrained schemes, this is bound to back fire on them so I say "bring em on" ROFLMAO!

[daleo]

35. Methinks Bush doth protest too much

It almost has that sense.

"Believe me, we got him, he found him all by ourselves, hiding in a hole covered by Styrofoam. Don't believe me, huh. Well, then we'll dig up the hole and bring it here to the U.S. to prove it."

Sure, whatever.

[Rex]

36. Commanders or the C &C

This sounds like a Rove production. So they're gonna make money off of the Kurds capture of Saddam by saying the U.S. did it? UFB!

[KansDem]

37. Why not just put it on the back of a flatbed truck...

...and parade it around the country?

They could display it in the parking lots of shopping malls.

[mbperrin]

38. Satire IS dead! Nobody

can keep up with this crew!

[pfitz59]

39. Toxins and poisonous molds.....

So how much nasty stuff will come along with the hole? Spores, viruses, nematodes, eggs? Ag inspectors better pitch a fit! This is disgusting!

[truthisfreedom]

40. they'll just pack it with DU (not us... depleted uranium) before they ship

it over. nothing will survive the trip.

[pfitz59]

41. Contraire!

The stuff in Mesopatmia has out-lived a thousnad civilizations! It'll sneer at DU!

[pinniped]

42. Ridiculous.

I'm a bit surprised but considering that the pres. is an ASSHOLE it's only fitting it has a liking for holes.

They gonna scoop up his feces and import it here too?

I'll tell you where it should go.

[Zhade]

45. I just want Cheney to be forced to force-feed the traitor.

Disgusting, but hey - fuck the traitors. All of them.

(Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, btw!)

[moondust]

43. Kin they git me one of them palaces?

Please daddy? I'd like that.

[Bridget Burke]

46. It's just one of many.....

Bush has more holes & hasn't stopped filling them:

[chenGOD]

47. Make an amusement park? WTF?

I guess they can't send enough Americans to war, so they're gonna bring the war to America?

When the hell was there ever anything amusing about war?