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Article: War in Iraq -- Saddam's Gone, but Souvenirs Flourish
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
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- April 20, 2003
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
For souvenir hunters, the next best thing to looting one of Saddam
Hussein's palaces is scrounging for war curios on the Internet.
The list of trinkets ranges from Bomb Saddam hot sauce and Iraqi
Road ice cream to Saddam pilatas and "Shock and Awe" underwear.
The biggest cache of merchandise is on eBay, with roughly 3,000
war-related items, mostly Iraqi coins and bills, but also an
assortment of novelty products: Saddam condoms, puppets and voodoo
dolls, "Pave Iraq" wristwatches, terrorist body bags, wacky T-
shirts. The list goes on.
So, why do people buy this stuff?
"It's an attempt, as civilians, to join in the war," psychiatrist
Mark Goulston says. "The thing all these ...