July 5, 2003

A Washington Post article on the construction of rest and recreation facilities for US troops within Saddam Hussein’s former palaces mentions a serve shortcoming in the palaces’ design. There is one deficiency in even the biggest palaces — a shortage of bathrooms. Mammoth buildings with dozens of rooms, extravagant marble lobbies and seemingly endless hallways might have only five bathrooms. Thus, in military style, even the grandest palace has a row of portable toilets in its parched garden. Clearly Hussein had a bad architect and probably never actually used these buildings. 9:00:27 PM