Saddam's Shag

"Troops Discover Lush Saddam Hideaway" (AP report).

The doors of the town house opened to reveal a playboy's fantasy straight from the 1960s: mirrored bedroom, lamps shaped like women, airbrushed paintings of a topless blonde woman and a mustached hero battling a crocodile.

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"This must have been Saddam's love shack," said Sgt. Spencer Willardson of Logan, Utah.

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One of the airbrushed paintings depicted a topless blonde woman, with a green demon behind her, pointing a finger at a mythic hero. From the tip of her finger came a giant serpent, which had wrapped itself around the warrior.

Another showed a buxom woman chained to a barren desert mountain ledge, with a huge dragon diving down to kill her with sharpened talons.

The home's 1960s look — parodied in the series of "Austin Powers" spy spoofs — inspired a round of imitations from soldiers slogging door to door.

"Yeah, baaabeee," said Carter, doing his best imitation of actor Mike Myers' character.

"Shagadelic," another soldier shouted.

Indeed, the carpet was navy blue shag.

Please note deposed dictator Saddam Hussein is into bad fantasy art (mysogynistic and portrays many powerful pseudopenises, like snakes and dragons).