Cheney has piece of house where Zarqawi died ‘on display.’

[laststeamtrain]

Cheney has piece of house where Zarqawi died ‘on display.’

In a cover story on “how Bush decided on the surge,” the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes declared that “it’s clear the surge has been a success” and noted that Vice President Dick Cheney has a gruesome souvenir from Iraq:

"The week before Camp David, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq, had been killed. (Cheney has a piece of the house where Zarqawi died on display at his residence.)"

President Bush also has a souvenir from the war: a pistol Saddam Hussein was clutching when U.S. soldiers pulled him from his hideout in Dec. 2003.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/28/cheney-has-piece-of-house-where-zarqawi-died-on-display/
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Freakin' ghouls.

[rateyes]

1. They should take those respective souvenirs, and shove them up their

trophy cases. Assholes.

[NastyRiffraff]

2. He is a sick, sick man

Talk about ghoulish preoccupation with death. Yes, I know Zarqawi was a piece of shit, but who uses a souvenir of it as a display like a ming vase?

[Dukkha]

3. Didn't he also have WTC debris in his office?

I swear the scumbag gets aroused from killings

[Maat]

4. What sick f*cks!

DUers always inspire this homeschooling mom; Beloved Daughter and I just discussed how you do NOT celebrate someone's death. You may not be sorry that the deceased left this world, and you may think that society is better of now that the departed has gone to the afterlife (if there is one); HOWEVER, you do not celebrate death, particularly by keeping a momento of the death.

That's right, on edit; you do not become a psychopath that gets off on killing (hopefully).

[swoop]

16. Then, I assume...

...you have spoken out here on DU everytime people have wished Rumsfeld would die, or Cheney's helicopter would crash, or President Bush would get assassinated? You've chided other Duers for wishing Jenna and Barbara would get attacked in South America, or wherever, that Condi wouldn't survive the middle east, or when folks here have wished for a 'John Hinckley' to come along?

[Maat]

17. Pretty much.

I never wish serious harm on others. Why the hostility? Is this the correct discussion board for you? You don't seem to be too comfortable discussing things here.

[Lex]

5. You mean Dick "last throes of the insurgency" Cheney?

There are plenty of people who might like a piece of the building where he finally checks out out of this world, come to think of it.

[Maat]

6. Good point, Lex (n/t).

[Supersedeas]

19. if only there were some sort of justice for these War Criminals

[Raine1967]

7. I am a little surprised

he didn't have Zarqawi's head stuffed and mounted on his wall. This is actually a step up for the Dark Lord.

[Virginia Dare]

20. He keeps that at his country home...

it fits in with the rest of the decor.

[Botany]

8. The Zarqawi who was supposed to be the #1 bad boy and got morphed .....

.... into one of the reasons we invaded Iraq? And after his death
didn't things turn around into our favor.

Stalin kept Hitler's bones .... Jeff Dahlmer kept trophies ..... S.S. officers
had lampshades made of human skin.

Dick Cheney is one sick fuck. Dick once took part in shooting 80 pheasants
in the AM and then went out a shoot ducks in the afternoon.

[Virginia Dare]

21. He got so excited about killing that he "accidentally" shot his friend..

or should I say his friend so rudely and inconveniently got in the way of his shotgun?

Deferment Dicky just loves shooting at things that are guaranteed not to shoot back.

[MichiganVote]

9. Serial killers always keep a trophy somewhere

[iamthebandfanman]

10. gross

that sick bastard.

he probably jerks off on it too, if he can get it up. probably electrical by now like the rest of his body tho.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

11. I reckon he keeps it to try to convince himself the war was worth it.

It really wasn't thou, and his crew knows it. I wonder how restful he sleeps.

[jimshoes]

12. Well to be fair, I have a photo of

chimpy that I throw darts at. Not really the same though.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. Cheney probably had Zarqawi's liver removed and keeps it in the fridge

in case some Chianti and fava beans become handy.

[ProgressiveFool]

14. Damn, I hope someone gets his pacemaker when he finally snuffs it /nt

edit: just a joke, Agent Mike

[Solly Mack]

15. Cowardly, dirt dwelling, impotent, quivering masses of low self-esteem

lacking any redeemable quality ...putrid and petrified......ruinous of everything they touch..and the greatest service either could do the world is to fall off the face of it

but don't get me started

[Cleita]

18. That's pretty ghoulish of him.

Does he keep pieces of the WTC after 9-11 for souveniers too? After all he and Bush are responsible after ignoring the 46 warnings that they got about that this was going to happen.