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juju · 12-06-2002, 04:24 PM

I saw this film a couple of hours ago in my Cultural Anthropology class. It was pretty informative and entertaining. However, near the end, it started getting into the internal politics of Saddam's family (all of whom he's promoted to positions of power), and I just sort of got lost amid all the information. The film detailed nearly his entire family tree (way too many names to remember if you ask me).

Saddam has promoted everyone he's even remotely related to some high office. It's pretty crazy. One of Saddams relatives used to be a taxi driver, and now he's like a governer or something. Of course, he loves to torture and execute his citizens (don't all taxi drivers?).

It actually showed Saddam addressing the criticism of him spending all the money on his palaces, and not on medicine. I forget exactly what he said, but it was throughly confusing and made no sense at all. It was something like, "Food is unimportant. We should aspire to permanant things, like buildings. People shouldn't work for food."

12-06-2002, 04:24 PM	#2
juju no one of consequence Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Arkansas Posts: 2,839	I saw this film a couple of hours ago in my Cultural Anthropology class. It was pretty informative and entertaining. However, near the end, it started getting into the internal politics of Saddam's family (all of whom he's promoted to positions of power), and I just sort of got lost amid all the information. The film detailed nearly his entire family tree (way too many names to remember if you ask me). Saddam has promoted everyone he's even remotely related to some high office. It's pretty crazy. One of Saddams relatives used to be a taxi driver, and now he's like a governer or something. Of course, he loves to torture and execute his citizens (don't all taxi drivers?). It actually showed Saddam addressing the criticism of him spending all the money on his palaces, and not on medicine. I forget exactly what he said, but it was throughly confusing and made no sense at all. It was something like, "Food is unimportant. We should aspire to permanant things, like buildings. People shouldn't work for food." Last edited by juju; 12-06-2002 at 04:30 PM.