Dark Bilious Vapors

From Reuters, we hear that President Bush has Saddam Hussein's pistol mounted as a trophy in an anteroom to the oval office, where apparently he takes pleasure in showing it off to selected guests.

A handgun that Saddam Hussein was clutching when U.S. forces captured him in a hole in Iraq last December is now kept by President Bush at the White House, Time magazine reported Sunday.

Military officials had the pistol mounted after it was seized from Saddam near his hometown of Tikrit last year, and soldiers involved in the capture gave it to Bush in a private meeting, Time said.

The magazine quoted a visitor who had been shown the gun, which is kept in a small study off the Oval Office where Bush displays memorabilia. It is the same room where former President Clinton had some of his encounters with former intern Monica Lewinsky.

Len on 05.30.04 @ 12:46 PM CST