What would you rather: have your hanging/beheading captured on camera phone or contract AIDS in prison? Okay, actually, don't answer that, we don't really want to know. But had you asked Saddam Hussein that question he might have gone with the hanging/beheading. (And he kind-of did, though that wasn't exactly his choice.)
Hussein was afraid of catching HIV and/or venereal diseases while in a U.S.-controlled prison, but apparently he didn't know too much about how said diseases are transmitted.
When Saddam found out his U.S. military guards were also using his
laundry line to dry clothes, he wrote that he demanded they stop,
according to the excerpts.
"I explained to them that they are
young and they could have young people's diseases," Saddam wrote. "My
main concern was to not catch a venereal disease, an HIV disease, in
this place." He said some soldiers ignored his request.
Yeah, because sharing a laundry line is way more dangerous than dropping the soap, or, you know, having your head chopped off.
Bets on when this will become a South Park episode?
[The AP: Diaries showed Saddam feared getting AIDS in prison]
