# I think the Iraqi Information Minister is a pisser **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 5, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684 "2003-04-05T15:57:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pathros\_1983](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@Pathros\_1983](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pathros_1983)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/21 "2003-04-06T21:40:43Z")
> [@](#): > > You didn’t butcher the part you got right. Nikita Kruschev (or Krushchev). Thank you. That had been bothering me for some time. I had studied the cold war, and always knew his name, but lately had been banging my head because I couldn’t remember it. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/22 "2003-04-06T23:31:42Z")
Hey what’s my thread doing in the Pit?!?! Idon’t hate this guy, I love him. Well, let me rephrase that: I love his style. If any Mod sees this I would ask you to reconsider the move. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/23 "2003-04-06T23:37:46Z")
Too late. Sorry, but I used the f-word in my earlier post - this thread was in the pit when I posted! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/24 "2003-04-06T23:38:00Z")
No! And may a thousand fleas infest your infidel armpits! Ooops! Sorry. I must’ve channeled the Iraqi Information Minister . 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/25 "2003-04-06T23:55:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elmwood \* > \*\*_Those smelly Saddam armpit-kissing 'raquis have breathed their last. Baghdad will be their graveyard! They are running towards our mighty soldiers like lemmings, pleading for their miserable lives! May Christ Jesus be praised!_ > \*\* Except for the last bit, I could have sworn I heard that from someone at Fox News Channel… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![hermann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@hermann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hermann)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/26 "2003-04-07T01:10:44Z")
Hopefully he’ll be captured, brought here, and given at least a radio talk-show. Better yet, a steady spot on SNL. ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/27 "2003-04-07T01:23:59Z")
He’d do a better job at the news on SNL then those two (Why two? It has _always_ been one…) fools currently doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/28 "2003-04-07T01:47:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Brutus \* > \*\*He’d do a better job at the news on SNL then those two (Why two? It has _always_ been one…) fools currently doing it. \*\* Ahem…“Jane, you ignorant slut!”. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/29 "2003-04-07T02:29:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Payton’s Servant \* > \*\*…for my money you can’t beat the Iranian clerics who lvingly refer to the United States as THE GREATEST OF ALL SATANS!!! > \*\* We’re Number One! ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/30 "2003-04-07T02:43:07Z")
He’s alot more fun to watch than Wolf Blitzer, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/31 "2003-04-07T05:18:16Z")
Well, since I am now seeing live footage of coalition troops in the main Presidential Palace in downtown Baghdad, I am curious as to how he will explain that. Beat thyself over the head with shoes… ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/32 "2003-04-07T06:17:27Z")
Personally, I want the map of the world that he’s always standing in front of! I _love_ how it makes all the land in the world look like water droplets! Simply gorgeous! I would have liked to have seen the press conference where he was denying that the US was being successful in any of its attacks, and then had the power go out! (Even more hysterical is the fact that the US _didn’t_ cut the power! His own people did it to him! 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/33 "2003-04-07T06:38:46Z")
My favorite Baghdad Bob line is when he dismissed the various bombs as being nothing but ‘special noise-making bombs’, that cannot harm the Iraqi Army. Hey, maybe he can replace Geraldo when this is all over…(I hear that O’Reilly turned his back to Geraldo, which is the kiss of death at FNC…) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/34 "2003-04-07T06:39:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by This Year’s Model \* > \*\*You didn’t butcher the part you got right. Nikita Kruschev (or Krushchev). > > I wonder if the shoe thing is an old Iraqi tradition. I remember early on seeing video of an Iraqi in the south beating on a poster of Hussein with his shoe. \*\* The shoe thing may be a muslim tradition. I recall from the book _Black Hawk Down_ that the crowds below were insulted by the sight of the soles of the soldiers boots when they were helicoptered about. I think they actually waved their shoes at the helicopters in defiance. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/35 "2003-04-07T06:39:30Z")
Trucker, I think the “emboss” effect in photoshop can easily create a water-drop map you seek. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/36 "2003-04-07T06:43:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stuyguy \* > \*\*Trucker, I think the “emboss” effect in photoshop can easily create a water-drop map you seek. \*\* Yeah, but how do I get a wallsized version of it and am I forced to keep the extra “r” in my Dopername if I go the route you mention? ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/37 "2003-04-07T06:47:14Z")
He just gave a tour de force performance with mortar fire and small arms crackling in the background. The allies are taking government buildings in Baghdad as I type this. “We are slaughtering the invaders, who, ah, just parked an M1A1 on presidential palace grounds.” ---
**Author:** ![Kitfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@Kitfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitfox)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/38 "2003-04-07T06:53:12Z")
“No, there are no troops in Bagdad [BLAM]. We are perfectly safe [Brr-APT]. There was a small invasion force [KA=BOOOM] but they were beaten back (Bradley drives past, crew waves).” ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/39 "2003-04-07T06:55:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beagle \* > \*\*He just gave a tour de force performance with mortar fire and small arms crackling in the background. The allies are taking government buildings in Baghdad as I type this. > > “We are slaughtering the invaders, who, ah, just parked an M1A1 on presidential palace grounds.” \*\* Loved the smirk on his face! “I kick Al-Jazeera, the network by Arabs for Arabs, out of the country for showing the Arab world that we’re a bunch of pathetic losers! I also submit my resume to them in hopes that after the war I can be a color commentator for them!” ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684/40 "2003-04-07T07:03:39Z")
[\*Lies, all lies I tell you!](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030407/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_baghdad&cid=540&ncid=716) Don’t believe your eyes, fools. It’s Hollywood trickery manufactured by the Infidels. Victory is at hand.\* [sub]Keep the Mercedes running. You did bring the white shirt like I asked, right? What’s the number of CENTCOM again? [/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-iraqi-information-minister-is-a-pisser/166684.md?page=3)