Wednesday, May 26, 2004

No 'Saddams' among Iraqi babies

I was playing a game that Mark and I made up using the Google Image search to find consistency among names. Some names yield consistently hot, nerdy, or weird images. I will have to blog on that with more details later.

However, I came across this story from Aljazeera. No one is named Uday, Qusay, or Saddam since the war began. Even funnier, you used to get paid if your birthday landed on Saddam's (April 28), some kind of Iraqi lottery or something.

Could this be used as a gage of Iraqi sentiment? No one has named their son Saddam, so he is clearly unpopular. No one has named their son Bush, either. However, a man in Falluja did name his son UBL...

--gh

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