Today was my day off. After sleeping until around 1130 I woke up, watched a little TV and headed over to the DFAC at about 1230. By total coincidence I ran into Robert in the DFAC and after lunch he took me around for kind of a tour of some of the stuff around here.
We headed toward Camp Slayer, with a couple different missions in mind. Mainly looking at the sights, but secondly to check out where Crossfit Slayer’s gym is for future reference. There are some pretty interesting sights around here, and a lot of them are in the Camp Slayer portion of the complex.
There are two palaces one which is finished, one that is not. The Perfume Palace is reportedly where Saddam kept his “harem”. The Victory over America and Iran Palace is a bit further down the road. It is ironically not finished. There are giant construction cranes around it, which apparently our “French Allies” would like us to pay for or ship back to them, as they were “lost” when we deposed the dictator for whom they were building the palace.
One of the things that amazes me the most going around this complex is all the water. It is pretty obvious in day to day dealings that we are in the middle of the desert, but the complex is scattered with many man-made lakes. Apparently Saddam’s version of Islam states that a sin created on a lake or body of water does not extend outside of that body of water. For that reason all of the palaces are surrounded by water and there are little buildings that are in the middle of the lakes around which have horrific stories from their past.
More to come later.
From Camp Victory Iraq…. Signing off…
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