all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

We Had Hoped To Spend Our Life With You, Saddam

by mike · 2005-06-10

An hour before dawn, the sky still clouded by a dust storm, the soldiers of the Iraqi army’s Charlie Company began their mission with a ballad to ousted president Saddam Hussein. “We have lived in humiliation since you left,” one sang in Arabic, out of earshot of his U.S. counterparts. “We had hoped to spend our life with you.”

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