Do you remember Saddam's pistol?

Bush keeps Saddam's pistol as trophy
Japan Today
May 31st, 2004

WASHINGTON — U.S. President George Bush keeps in his White House offices a trophy of one his high points in the Iraq war, the pistol that Saddam Hussein held when soldiers pulled him from his underground hideaway.

Military specialists mounted the sidearm, and soldiers who helped in the deposed Iraqi president's capture presented it to the president, the White House said Sunday. The president keeps the gun in a small study adjoining the Oval Office.

"He really liked showing it off," the report in Time magazine quotes an unnamed recent visitor to the White House as saying. "He was really proud of it."

Though it was widely reported at the time that the pistol was loaded when US troops grabbed Saddam, Mr Bush has told visitors that the gun was actually empty - and that it is still empty and safe to touch, Time pointed out.
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