Unfortunately, I lost some of my pics in a computer crash, but virtually ALL of the palaces were this opulent. Mosul had a FOB that was based on a palace complex, lots of marble and mosaics throughout. Mosaics of Saddam standing next to old women in chadors, holding a grenade, or reclining, holding a young blonde boy. Mosaics of Uday and Qusay as Sumerian kings/warriors. Carvings of women or lions or horses. The palace I lived in for a while had one purpose (I was told this third-hand, FWIW): full of rape rooms where Uday and Qusay would go, pick a woman from an overhead balcony, and have their way with them. The woman would then be killed and tossed into the artificial lake out back.
