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Saddam Hussein: Erotic Novelist

Behind the Bastards

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The Bechtel Test on Saddam

Saddam Hussein wrote four novels in his last three years in power, which is pretty impressive. Experts on Saddam are pretty sure he wrote this himself and he didn't have a ghostwriter because no ghostwriter would have been allowed to like end a book with Saddam's self-insert dying or democracy being established. "I got a deal with defending my country from an invasion, but first I need some notes"

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