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There was a show on NPR not too long ago that really boiled my blood in regards to these 2 fucks, esp. Uday. Uday was in charge of the Iraqi Olympic Committee (insert joke here), and as Chairman he did some unbelievable things to his own athletes when they didn't live up to expectations. In fact, they have one of the most extensive torture cells and dungeons in the basement of the Olympic building in Iraq!
One example they mentioned was the men's Iraqi Volleyball team. Upon a failure to win a medal (or even advance beyond preliminaries) in an International competition, Uday proceeded to put these men in a very small, narrow, tight room where they could not fully stand up all the way nor sitdown, and had no room to maneuver. He left them in this room for 3 days. Upon extreme physical torture in this method was also extreme mental torture - because the men were quite tall. And since they were not jumping high enough when competing, the reverse psychology was applied in their torture.
Then of course you had your garden variety of torture methods to other athletes, death and disappearance included (and that didn't exclude relatives). I know this really isin't terribly shocking stuff, considering it falls in the norm to this family's sick regime. But since I've been an athlete all my life and the fact that this was done to athletes really struck a nerve with me.
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Whence September dusk grows crisper still,
with leaves all crimson conquered,
I yearn to shout,
and dance about,
and stick pickles in my honker...
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They don't even do that in Texas anymore lol. 
Well, we can't even have fireworks anymore. 
