One celebrity endorser you don’t want

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We can’t say Saddam Hussein’s penchant for Doritos and Cheetos will do much for either brand’s sales, but boy, what a dose of humanity it is proving for the dictator. The Butcher of Baghdad, enemy of America, murderer of millions, loves his Doritos and eats his Raisin Bran for breakfast. (We can see the Us Weekly feature now: “Despots—they’re just like us!”) The details about his processed-food proclivities, as told to GQ by the GIs guarding him, make the former Iraqi leader, recently photographed in his tighty-whities, even more pathetic.

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