Not sure how the folks at Kellog's feel about the endorsement, but for all our would be tyrants around the world apparently a proper breakfast of Raisin Bran Crunch is the way to start your day. In a wide ranging examination of Saddam Hussein in captivity, GQ magazine has gone behind the bars interviewing five of the US guards who stood watch over the former Butcher of Baghdad.
The article will apparently provide a different side of the Saddam we have known over the years. Turns out he's a relatively sedate kind of guy when on the other side of the prison bars, quiet, polite and a tad of a clean freak. He has a soft spot for Dan Rather and the era of Ronald Reagan, but understandably isn't quite as fond of the Bush family. And if you want to get on his bad side bring him a bowl of Froot Loops, seems he detests that particular brand of breakfast option.
He offered his jailers marital advice and says he looks upon them as sons. Advising them to return to Iraq when he is returned to power so he can show them around the place outside those prison walls.
Saddam apparently still believes he is the rightful leader of Iraq and is sure that one day he will return to the job he once held. And he's still bitter at the "Judas" who betrayed him, a fellow who had best hope that Saddam does not actually fulfill his own prophecy of return.
He of course at the moment is tied up with judicial proceedings over his misdeeds in years previous. Still waiting trial he continues to spend time in his cell answering the occasional question of his US captors. One suspects if they want to get the real story out of him they should order in the Fruit Loops, the way to break this guy may be through his breakfast menu.
Lisa DePaulo's GQ Story of Saddam makes it to the newsstand in July.
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