What if Baghdad Bob was right all along?

[sugapablo]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06342/744513-153.stm

A quite revealing read, quoting "Baghdad Bob"...

Remember Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf? He was the former Iraqi information minister who became a folk hero in the West because of his unintentionally hilarious daily briefings even as coalition forces tightened the noose around the regime's neck.

Nicknamed "Baghdad Bob" by a credulous American press corps all too willing to parrot Bush administration propaganda, the Iraqi bureaucrat had a talent for lurid prose that hinted at a poetic sensibility beneath the nonsense.

Among my favorites were: "God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of the Iraqis"; "The midget Bush and Rumsfeld deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom-loving people everywhere"; "Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire"; and "I speak better English than this villain Bush."

Baghdad Bob made his final prophetic utterance on April 7, 2003, before disappearing into the obscurity of occupied Iraq: "This invasion will end in failure."

[leftchick]

1. how prophetic

I wonder if he is still alive?

[Greeby]

2. In the UAE with his family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Saeed_al-Sahaf

I heard myself that he got a job as a pundit on one of the arabic networks

[PA Democrat]

3. I love Tony Norman.

K & R. The entire column is a must-read.

[RamboLiberal]

4. I too love Tony Norman - Hey remember Saddam's Pistol?

Love the reference here by Tony.

Back in the good old days when Americans didn't give a damn about the war as long as we were "winning," Mr. Bush even enshrined a former dictator's pistol in a corner of the White House.

The gun was a souvenir from a night three Christmas shopping seasons ago when U.S. soldiers pulled Saddam Hussein, dishevelled and lice-infected, from an underground lair near Tikrit.

Saddam was packing heat at the time. His sidearm was taken from him and given to his mortal enemy in the White House.

It was promptly mounted and stashed in an Oval Office study where Mr. Bush can make goo-goo eyes at it whenever he feels the need to pretend he's a big, bad Christian warlord.

Now that the flush of war fever has dissipated and American and Iraqi casualties mount daily by the dozens, Mr. Bush probably understands that his cheesy trophy is more a curse than a symbol of his military acumen.