psycho-cowboy : photos : 2003 (April) Iraq-Life Inside Saddam's Ramadan Palace- powered by SmugMug

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In March of 2003 I received a phone call requesting I volunteer to go to Iraq during the invasion as a GS-15/COL in civilian status with 167 other civilians to serve under (RET) General Jay Garner. We entered Baghdad as the city burned...

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psycho-cowboy > The entry doors to the 2nd rotunda room where the portrait of the missiles launching were.

psycho-cowboy > a carved marble wall hanging.

psycho-cowboy > The receiving waiting room to Saddam's inner sanctum (which opened to a court yard)

psycho-cowboy > The model of the palace that resided in the great rotunda. We smashed it w/our feet when we left.

psycho-cowboy > This was a model of the palace we found in the great rotunda of the palace. Every time a civilian left, we stomped it. By the time I left, most of it was destroyed but I got in my footprint.

psycho-cowboy > Inside the rotunda outside Saddam's private office was a mosaic of him passing bricks up to the builder of the palace. Pure propoganda. We covered it shortly after arrival then burned all the books 'written' by Saddam in his private library.

psycho-cowboy > A 2nd outer waiting room to Saddam's private office.

psycho-cowboy > Inside one of the great halls. This painting graced the walls and was one of six portraits painted in the room. A rotunda of mecca w/arabian horses in the sky was in the center of the room.

The entry doors to the 2nd rotunda room where the portrait of the missiles launching were.

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