And now you can own the Iraqi information minister, and if you’re so inclined, fight him with your GI Joe, or your Barbie. According to this story anyway. What do you think? Cheap at 35.95?
“In very poor taste”, sez this humorless person, seeing as how it’s being reported that the man hanged himself.
Plus there’s this:
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=450462003
The guy has a family, fer crissakes.
I’ll have to get one and put him by my Bobblehead Jesus!
Is that mitigated at all by the fact that he devoted his life to evil?
Do you harbor the same outrage over the Dubya dolls on that site? Or does it only count if the person is possibly deceased?
Oh please, lighten up and get off those high horses. In the first place, the man may or may not be dead, in the second place, his son is not amused? No fucking shit! Neither would I if it was my father, but it is not. It is the doll of someone who was part of an evil government, a government who killed and tortured people for fun and profit. In the third place, making fun of evil figures we defeated in war is a time honored tradition, and must I add, funny as hell to those without bugs up their ass, or possible relatives.
And just because I’m thinking of it now, did you have problems with “The Producers”? No? Interesting, that whole “Springtime for Hitler” bit was surely about an evil, dead man, who surely must have people who loved him dearly.
“He devoted his life to evil?”
Did I miss the news reports that the Information Minister tortured puppies and maimed children for fun? Gee, and all this time I thought he was just a guy doing his job, albeit in a somewhat goofy way…
Well, his job was working for Sadam Hussein and supporting his regime. Saddam, and his regime, were both evil by any rational standard. So, yeah, “devoted his life to evil” isn’t a particular stretch.
I bought a t-shirt with his face on it, saying “We are in control.” Once reports of his suicide appeared I had some compunction about still wearing it. Then upon thinking about it, I realized this guy was (please excuse the Godwinization, but it’s appropriate) the Iraqi Goebbels. We only knew him from his few weeks during the war when he was just a joke, but he was doing all this crap and terrorizing Iraqis with propaganda for years. “Just doing his job” is not an excuse in my book. I’m not shedding a tear for the guy, and if he did off himself then that would be the most honorable thing he’s done in years.
I hope they make the Chemical Ali doll
WITH SUPER SARIN SPRAYING ACTION!!!
and Uday Hussain
WITH POWER ACTION PUNCH !!
LOOK OUT JOE!! Its the IRAQI T-80 TANK WITH BATTLE DAMAGE EXPLODING TURRET AND SCUD LANCHER WITH MISSILE LAUCHING ACTION!!!* DON"T WORRY!!! ‘SNAKEYES’, ‘PRIVATE LYNCH’ AND THE ‘LYNCH MOB’ HAVE THE LASER DESIGNATOR READY AND ‘ARCHLIGHT’ IN THE B-52 IS READY TO DROP A MOAB** ON 'EM!!
KA-BOOM!!
GO JOE!!
*Hasan the Tank Driver and Baghdad Bunker playset sold separately. Some assembly required.
**Actual B-52 does not come with M.O.A.B. bomb
…so did all the people who were tortured under his regime.
It’s a damn shame. If it weren’t for that doll, his son would have really loved America.
Oh, please. Sun Myong Moon has loads of children, it doensn’t necessarily make him any more palatable as a human being. And Moon hasn’t been funny in years, this guy is a comic genius.
And the fact that he is a medical doctor in a western country means nothing to you? Because his father was a mouthpiece for Saddam makes him anti-american also?
guilt by association! Arrest him immediately!
Fuck off.
I was wondering where all the compassion fascists were today. Good morning, TwistofFate!
We’ll ignore the obvious fact that Alessan is joking. Regardless, where did he (or she) say that the doll was OK because he was anti-American? Where does he say that he even cares whether the guy likes the United States or not?
In fact, where the hell does he say anything you responded to?
Twisty, if the American army killed my father or drove him to suicide, I’d probably hate America too. Compared to that, an action figure is pretty insignificant.
So get some fucking pespective.
I’m a compassion fascist? get a fucking grip.
Alessan:
You’re still making the assumption that he hates America. Where did you get this from?
Mea culpa. You’re not a compassion facist, you just berate people and tell them to ‘fuck off’ if they don’t show as much concern for our enemies as you do. You’re merely a ‘compassion fan.’
How is this guy’s son your enemy?
And how exactly are they my enemies, anyway?
they certainly weren’t America’s enimies when America was helping them against Iran, were they?