Saddam forced to watch South Park
former dictator sees himself portrayed as Satan's lover
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein forced to watch himself being satirized in several South Park episodes.
(Source: IBN)
U.S. Marines have devised a way to entertain Saddam Hussein while he cools his heels in jail: they show him South Park cartoons.
In 1999, Hussein banned South Park from being aired in Iraq because it repeatedly portrayed him as Satan's homosexual lover. That same year, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone released South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, which featured Saddam and Satan plotting to take over the world.
South Park co-creator Matt Stone said that Marines guarding the former dictator were repeatedly screening the film for Hussein.
"I have it on pretty good information from the Marines on detail in Iraq that they showed him (South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut)," Stone said while speaking at an Edinburgh TV Festival. "That's really adding insult to injury. I bet that made him really happy."
Hussein is currently on trial for various war crimes and atrocities. The allegations include using poison gas against Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and dropping chemical weapons on the Iraqi town of Halabja, killing up to 5,000 people. He is also accused of crimes against humanity and possibly genocide against the Marsh Arabs and Shi'a Arabs in southern Iraq, as well as against Iraqi Kurds in northern Iraq.
Hussein also repeatedly violated 16 United Nations Security Council resolutions. These resolutions were imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
