I’m expecting this clown to be giving a news conference and have a column of M1s appear in the window behind him. Who is he trying to lie to? His own people? The press?
I currently have a GD thread regarding Iraqi Politic: The Coy Young Maiden Approach is completely pathetic … Nuff said.
And yes I can not wait to see a group of Marines, charge into his press conference and him still saying, there are no infidels in Baghdad!!!
Pathetic, and I really do not see the rationale.
Heh. It’ll be fun to see what he does if coalition forces stand right behind him, mugging for the camera and waving. 
Sorry Phlosphr - I generally don’t wander into GD.
I’ll go over and take a looksee!
Saddam’s security chief calls all of Saddam’s look-alikes together to make an important announcement.
He says to them:
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I think he’d be a little bit more believable if he conceded just a bit, “We’ve lost some of our brave fighters to the infidels, but we are holding strong” but this complete Queen of Denial routine is getting ludicrous.
There’s a BBQ Pit thread too…about what a pisser he is.
I’m reminded of the end of “Animal House,” when the guy is screeching “ALL IS WELL!!!” while people run around in panic behind him as the parade collapses.
I’m thinking of the King of HyBrasil in Erik the Viking - as the island sinks into the sea, he assures the populace that “This is not happening!” in a sing-song voice…
I assume everyone else is doing like we are doing and calling him “the Mis-information Minister”.
I am sorta starting to feel sorry for the guy. Because 1) he believes what he is saying or 2) he is deluding his own people. Either way it is a sad thing.
Actually, I had Leslie Neilson (sp?) in the Naked Gun in my mind with this. There is a scene where a house is burning down and fireworks and crap going off with total mahem behind him.
Nothing to see here, nothing to see here, Move on!.
If this goes on much longer, he may be like John Cleese’s Black Knight from “Monty Python and the Holy grail.” He’ll be on the ground, armless and legless, saying, “Right… we’ll call it a draw.”
Maybe he doesn’t know he’s really not in Baghdad. Maybe they’ve kept him in some little room with a tiny window in the outer reached of Iraq and just TOLD him he was in Baghdad.
Maybe he doesn’t know he’s really not in Baghdad. Maybe they’ve kept him in some little room with a tiny window in the outer reached of Iraq and just TOLD him he was in Baghdad.
Or, if he doesn’t say what he is saying, he’ll be executed.
it is rather baffling. there is plausible deniability, and then there is the iraqi information minister. he, (i hate to say it,) is wearing no clothes.
Quite a possibility. According to news reports, whether or not Saddam is alive, they’re pretty sure Qusay still is.
nbc just broke in with news of a massive strike, that may have killed saddam and his sons. the bombs were dropped in a very residential area and the crater is very huge.
they acted on intelligence that sh, qh, and uh, along with top advisors were meeting.
i’ve been thinking that saddam has been out of it for a while. i would have expected there to at the very least booby traps in the various “palaces.” the lack of things flying toward israel, and no sign of the womd’s seemed rather strange with saddam at the helm.
Hmmmm…maybe we really aren’t there.
Wag the Dog, anyone?
God, this press conference sounds like a bad SNL sketch or something. Maybe we took over Iraqi TV after all?
Two words.
Burbank. Soundstage.
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