Sometimes, you follow the news to places you don’t expect. Today is one of those days. The bronze butt from the Saddam Hussein statue toppled by Marines in downtown Baghdad on April 9, 2003, is now up for auction, according to several reports out of British media. It was reportedly put up on the block by Crafty Nigel “Spud” Ely, a former British soldier working in Baghdad that day with a TV news crew. From The Sun out of London: Spud said: “The Marines had a cordon of tanks guarding the square. But I wanted a piece of the statue.…