Reports had circulated since Saddam's rise to power in 1979 that Saddam Hussein had a dead-on impression of American actor Christopher Walken, inspired at the time by Saddam's near-obsession with The Deer Hunter.

Intelligence reports of that time period reported rumors that Saddam would sit in a screening room for hours watching and re-watching the film. Though his English was rusty at the time, Saddam reportedly knew every word to "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You."

"Saddam followed Walken's career closely after that," said Khaled

"The makeup was okay, but the voice was terrible"

Merodach-Baladnan, local Tikrit nerd and video store clerk. "He even managed to get his hands on a loop of Barefoot in Athens, I heard. By the time he'd seen Walken play the part of Capt. Koons in Pulp Fiction, I'd heard that Saddam could do a better Walken than Kevin Spacey."

Pentagon sources have learned, however, that Saddam's Walken impression simply sucks.

"We were sitting around taking a break from interrogating him, right? And so we egged him on a bit to do his Walken for us," said an inside source. "'Ah, c'mon, Sawdie, you can do it for us,' you know, that kind of thing. Of course, the guy had ingested enough sodium pentathol to land a moose.

"So he rolls his eyes and groggily agrees and he launches into what may have been the worst Walken I've ever seen in my life. Oh, holy shit, it was terrible. He looked and sounded like Jay Mohr if he'd had a stroke, had both hands tied behind his back and hadn't peed in four days.

"When he got to 'I gotta have more cowbell,' I couldn't help myself. I punched him in the stomach. Man, his Walken just sucked ass."

Former Iraqi Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf disagreed.

"Lies! The infidels would not know a good Christopher Walken impression if it bit them in the nuts," said al-Sahaf. "We all know, Allah knows, and you know, that the best Christopher Walken impression is given by the one and only Saddam! We will behead you all!"