Super Bowl fun fact!
 

Bettis gets key to city, same as Saddam
By Patrick McManamon
Akron Beacon Journal
Published: 02.01.2006

DETROIT — The city of Detroit presented the Key to the City to Steelers running back Jerome Bettis on Tuesday.
Bettis, a Detroit native, joined only three others to receive the key — and one of them was Saddam Hussein.
Yes, that Saddam Hussein, dictator from Iraq, now on trial after being thrown out by a U.S. invasion.
Seems back in 1980, Saddam was on the side of the good guys, and just after he was "elected" president of Iraq, he became friends with a Rev. Jacob Yasso, who ran Chaldean Sacred Heart church in the Motor City.
Yasso recently told The Associated Press that Saddam was "very kind, very generous, very cooperative with the West."
"Money and power changed the person," Yasso added.
Chaldeans are a Catholic group in predominantly Muslim Iraq, and Detroit is a city with a large Muslim population. Saddam donated money to many Chaldean churches, according to the AP, and gave the church in Detroit $250,000.
At that time, Iraq was at war with Iran, which was an enemy of the United States.
Bettis laughed off his link with Saddam.
"I don't know that I'll be sharing that with Saddam," he said. "I think they canceled his key. They changed the locks on that one."

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This whole topic is another one of those great "1984" moments too. Most people have no clue that Saddam wsa liked and heavily supported by the U.S. back in the day.

Most people have no clue that there is no "Permanent Alliances" setting the real world.

Besides, of all of the alliances we have today, which ones do you cancel for fear that they will become our enemies sometime in the future?

I'd say we cancel the alliance with France if we still have anything formal with them. They'd cause more problems in the front l;ine then they'd solve. When their entire army surrenders we'd have to worry about fixing that part of the line!

Saddam was the man back when he was bombing and gassing all them Iranians in the late 70s and early 80s.

I'm not talking about our foreign policy, i'm talking about the media.

I still think we should nuke London. That'll learn em for 1812!

What kind of journalist uses sentences that start with the word "Seems"?

Fun Fact #2: Aretha Franklin lives next to my uncle.

:D

Is that a piano?

No honey, that's Aretha Franklin.

Looked like Stevie Wonder might have snacked on your aunt too...

I want my money back, as I do not find this fact fun.