Bush May Put Saddam's Gun In His Presidential Library

New York Times:

Many American presidents have kept prized possessions within reach during their White House years. Franklin D. Roosevelt cherished a 19th century ship model of the U.S.S. Constitution. One of Dwight D. Eisenhower's favorite gifts was an engraved Steuben glass bowl from his cabinet. And sitting on John F. Kennedy's desk in the Oval Office was a paperweight made from a coconut shell he had carved with a distress message after his PT-109 was sunk during World War II.

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Comments

[purplejesus]

he should put it in his mouth!

[Indy 44]

Anything goes today, huh?

[donttasemebro]

Most libraries don't allow guns.

[freddiefreeloader]

WMD's ?

[kimleehan]

good point, You said more with four letters than a page of comments.

[mesoholy]

He might as well mounting Saddam's head on the wall in the lobby.

[Tomlastliberalleft]

Well what did you expect? There ain't gonna be no books in this here libree. You want people to come to the thing, don't ya? Put some dang ol guns in there and people will show up. He was gonna put a Iraqi T-55 tank in the lobby but the damn thing is too heavy! It'd mess with the bakerlite floor tiles.

[bigsioux]

Stick saddam's head on a pole. That would be cool George.

[JohnJames]

He can place his famous "mission accomplished" codpiece right next to it (or in it).

[furey]

Ask Rudy to donate his "souvenir" for your collection, Mr. Bush.

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/black-box/

[westreal]

Pretty much shows that war was for revenge.

[editor]

Is that the weapon of mass destruction he went to war over?

[IWantTofu]

If he loaned it to Cheney it would be.

[dinglebe]

He should use it to go hunting with Cheney.

[RRoadrunner]

No surprise. He should also put in the boots of young men needlessly killed.

[mapleaforever]

And women.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

If he had found any WMD that would be there to.

[IWantTofu]

So Presidents can keep the spoils of war? Sodliers can take items from operations to keep personally, or to give away as they please? I can understand if the gun was a possession of the United States, and Bush made it availabile in his library. But the way the article reads is as if Bush thinks of it as his own personal possession which he is, through the goodness of his heart, making available to the Bush library. I think a clarification of how the rules of war, and our laws work regarding taking items from the field of battle works. Can the soldiers take the gold items from Saddam's Palaces and keep for themselves or give away as gifts to loved ones? During a raid on an Iraqi home, can soldiers take items from the home for their own? Inquiring minds want to know. I'm not sure why the author didn't explain this apparent gorilla in the room.

[periscope]

I have an alternative suggestion as to where Bushboy should stick Saddam's gun - and it isn't another library.