Today’s color is burned-out black & white. It’s the color of Saddam’s yacht al-Mansur (The Victor). According to the BBC, it was hit by at least 16 bombs and missiles, but it hasn’t sunk. This is probably a good thing, because it’s floating around in Basra’s inner harbor, and I imagine a boat of that size could really get in the way of other shipping if it was sitting on the bottom. The yacht had a secret passage from Saddam’s private cabin to a lower deck where he kept his escape submarine pod. It’s too bad they’ll never make a James Bond movie about the guy.
