Saddam Hussein's Story

"I've avoided it and I want nothing to do with it because some of that stuff is so terrifying," he says. "It was a long 20 years for Iraqis, of course, but also for people who were forced to see this ... It's not an episode, but you you get what you get what I mean." The Iraq war has been excise for our imagination since the 1980s when Saddam Hussein came to power in his second term as Iraqi prime minister; we don't even talk about Abu Ghraib yet.