Posted on 05/30/2004 9:16:04 AM PDT by freepatriot32
May 30) -- When Saddam Hussein was rousted from his spider hole in Dawr, a town near Tikrit, by U.S. soldiers last December, Iraq's fallen dictator was clutching a pistol. He is now in detention at an undisclosed location, being questioned by American authorities and awaiting charges for war atrocities and crimes against humanity. But what ever happened to the pistol?
The sidearm has made its way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Sources say that the military had the pistol mounted after the soldiers seized it from Saddam and that it was then presented to the president privately by some of the troops who played a key role in ferreting out the old tyrant.
Though it was widely reported at the time that the pistol was loaded when they grabbed Saddam, Bush has told visitors that the gun was empty—and that it is still empty and safe to touch. "He really liked showing it off," says a recent visitor to the White House who has seen the gun. "He was really proud of it."
The pistol's new place of residence is in the small study next to the Oval Office where Bush takes select visitors after pointing out better-known White House pieces like the busts of Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower and a watercolor called "A Charge to Keep," which gets its name from a Methodist hymn.
The study — the one where Bill Clinton held some of his infamous trysts with White House intern Monica Lewinsky — has become a place where Bush keeps the memorabilia that hold special significance for him. Another of the room's mementos: a photograph of special-forces soldiers in Afghanistan praying after burying a piece of the World Trade Center there as a tribute to those who died in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Sounds like a made up story.
Secret Service is allowed to carry in D.C. as I'm sure are the D.C. police. Certainly the CIC should be allowed a weapon if not required, IMHO. This is truly a non-story for the anti-gun,thumb-sucking,whiney libs.
ROTFLMAO...Bush has the pistol in there, but clintler was the one who had the accidental discharge!
I wasn't aware it was possible to connect that many non-sequiturs together.
How old are you?
Speaking of thefts from the White House, I was there a few weeks ago and was amused to see that Bush has the two paintings the Clintons "took" hanging on either side of the door to the Oval Office.
Carolinamom was with me and even the Secret Service agent was laughing with her about it!
This is one of them:
They captured our kitty sniper? He was the best anti-troll operative we had.
By the looks of some of the posts on this thread, we really need him!
See #26.
There certainly are snipers on the roof of the White House with GUNS.
ROFL! That's great!
Singing happy birthday George, would remind me of George McGovern.
clinton would have wanted uday and usay's porn collection.
Bush's use of the adjoing room is much more appropriate than the lying pervert's was. (Wish we could have seen it when we were so close to it!!)
I think clinton may have refered to it as the "whore room"...
*ducking*
It's clinton's fault that I misspelled adjoining as "adjoing." (Bout time to change that lib mantra!)
Ah, but he is an expert at taking the gun away from that guy and using it on him !! hehe!
If Bush had asked for the pistol, I would consider this in a different light. As a memento from the troops, I think it is great.
Our troops wanted our President to have this pistol. Get over it.
Well, I hope to heaven that the Military did a thorough background check on the President and made him wait the necessary 7 days before giving the gun to him.
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