Just a thought
Isn’t it strange how we call Saddam Hussein “Saddam”? Isn’t that sort of like Harry Truman calling Stalin “Joe”?
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Maybe it’s a way of “minimizing” the selected enemy? Or maybe it’s the name itself — Saddam, with the “sad” syllable starting…could be the sound of it seem to be an indictment? He’s “sad”? Pitiful? Hardly able to hold himself up?
Just a theory.
so cracker said to piffle ‘ when you warblebelly the apricot copter ka-chingalings.’, but the tree kept playing Tetris until all the Freddys were washed from the national economy.
It started during the gulf war because King Hussein of Jordan was our ally and the president’s advisors felt that having a “bad guy” named Huessein and a “good guy” named Hussein would be too confusing for the huddled masses. Sad, really. It’s been said that Bush 1 also intentionally misprounced “Saddam” to make it sound more like “Sodom” as it was felt that would demean him when people in the middle east heard it in news reports.
We call Saddam by one name because there were two Hussiens. We liked one.