I remember when this was all over the news. I was...I wanna say...16 or 17 at the time and bagging groceries at the grocery store. They literally wheeled in a TV on one of those TV stands when you were in school back in the day when the teacher was going to put on a movie just so customers could shop and watch the breaking news of Saddam being hanged up at "the courtesy booth" near the front of the store.
When I say to kids much younger than me that the Bush years were much more surreal than the Trump years, this is part of what I'm thinking of/what I mean. And I am not someone who gives a shit about Saddam at all. The dude was a fucking monster but who the hell are/were we to act like we were some "humanitarians" or whatever...? Get the fuck out of here.
Adults were cheering and crying tears of joy. And I mean the whitest, fattest, Americans you can picture. Just standing at the TV, some of whom chanting "USA! USA!", etc. What a fucking wild ass day that was.
Absolutely bonkers. I was around the same age in 06, just about to graduate high school. I remember the overall troop worship and the attitude that the president could do no wrong. It was a bleak time, who would have guessed it only got worse?
I was at a rest stop in upstate New York when it happened. Completely surreal. Just random people peeing off the highway breaking out into cheers and applause, and some of the most haunting shit being beamed into the eyes of every child in there. Cursed land.