You really begin to get the scale of it all when you see the amazing lavish areas Saddam had dedicated to himself and his fellow Baath party members. This guy was larger than life like him or not. He really had some out of this world ideas, and he ran with them. (Mind you I disagree with nearly all of them)

He was a bad guy who was somehow allowed to run as far as he wanted for a long long long time.

This is a picture of the palace that he named "Victory Over America Palace" Hmmmm that didn't work out quite like he imagined I guess.