Alec Baldwin: "Basinger Compared Me to Saddam Hussein"

(Hat tip: FreeRepublic)

As much as Baldwin hates George W. Bush, I wouldn't have thought he'd have a problem with the comparison:

... Baldwin was appalled when the actress likened him to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and was especially crushed when she claimed in legal papers that he was not a good parent to their daughter Ireland.

He says, "My ex-wife once said, 'He's Saddam Hussein.' She said that.

"And I thought, 'Do I hide myself in cramped underground quarters? Do I like to shoot firearms in a celebratory way? Did I execute whole villages of people and bulldoze their bodies into a pit? What are you saying? Explain this to me.'

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