If you had not yet worked out that Saddam Hussein and his clan were all dreadful bounders of the first order, I give you first hand evidence of the decadent lifestyles to which all were accustomed as their people starved, courtesy of CNN, who reported on 15th April from Baghdad:

"While most Iraqis suffered under the U.N. sanctions that drove their country into poverty, Saddam Hussein's 39-year-old son, Uday, lived a life of fast cars, expensive liquor and easy women, a tour through his bombed house showed Monday.

"The walls of a gym were plastered with photographs of women downloaded from the Internet -- "the biggest collection of naked women I'd ever seen," said Army Capt. Ed Ballanco, of Montville, N.J. "It looked like something at the Playboy Mansion."

"Also found were photos of President Bush's 21-year-old daughters, Jenna and Barbara, "dressed up very nice in evening clothes," Ballanco said. He said soldiers took them "to protect the president."

"... The house also indicated Uday's sybaritic side, something Iraqi dissenters have told of for decades: a hunger for alcohol, drugs and lots and lots of women. There were bottles of ... Chimay, Corona and Miller Genuine Draft beers."

The Guide would like it to be known that while we have expressed some reservations about Chimay beers in recent years we have never considered them to have sunk in standard to such a level as to be comparable with Corona, Miller Genuine Draft or the Bush girls.