So, yesterday I began my day by watching a scruffy Saddam getting a medical exam, and laughing. I like big news days, so I went to work early and spent the entire time editing Saddam footage for the newscasts. When there's a big event like that, I like the fact that I can sit in a room and access dozens of satellite and digital feeds and watch tons of footage. And on each one of them feeds: Saddam getting a medical exam.

When I saw all the video of his little sheep farm and the so-called, 'spider hole', it made me think of a funny little movie/book premise. I picture this cute little family of Iraqi sheep herders and on one fateful day their adorable little boy, "Aki" finds Saddam living in their shed. And through some sitcom hilarity they help hide him from the US troops because he's giving them money (and was thier larger-than-life dictator). And over the course of the next few months, he grows a beard, helps "Aki" with his self-esteem issues, lends a hand on the farm, and becomes a member of their family. And by the end "Uncle Saddam" not only teaches them about life, but he learns a valuable lesson himself. And then when he's captured he jokes and is freindly with the troops becuase it isn't the same Saddam who did all those things, he's changed and feels a new love of humanity.

However, the only problem with that idea: He's a ruthless, murdering dictator who led his country into ruin, and ordered the slaughter of thousands of people. So, not so much on the uncle Saddam movie.