Apparently, you guys aren't the only ones to think 'joint' when seeing that torch. Jim Rome just did a rather hilarious rant on the torch and some pro-cannabis lady's reaction to it.
It looks like a Dustbuster or giant scalpel to me.
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You hit it on the head, man. Saddam had a way of occassionally staging photo ops of him in a mosque, or otherwise looking like a devout Muslim, when dude was anything but, in order to shore up support amongst his people...