Outdoing Nebuchadnezzar Saddam's ego trip in Babylon

International Herald Tribune | August 20, 2003| | Copyright

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In the realm of Saddam Hussein kitsch, it is hard to compete with Babylon. The Iraqi leader found the squat, khaki-colored nubs of earth and scattered stacks of bricks left over from one of history's glorious empires somehow lacking, far too mundane to represent the 2,500-year sweep of Mesopotamian history that was to be reborn through his rule. So he ordered one of the three original palaces rebuilt. Never mind that nobody really knows what the imposing palaces looked like. Nor did Saddam pay much heed to the fact that the archaeological world cried foul ã deriding ...

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