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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…

BillyFact: Baghdad Bob v. Neocons Retro Edition

As Iraq implodes in a cloud of sectarian violence, virtually every neocon who dragged America into a catastrophic war there under the falsest of pretenses has come out of the woodwork to backseat drive for the grownups now in charge. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Miller, Wolfowitz, Kristol, McCain, Feith….shall I continue or would you prefer I take pity on your gag reflex?

This seems like a good time to pause and remember Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf...aka "Baghdad Bob." He was the Iraqi Information Minister who issued statements before and during the invasion that were so outrageous they kept us smirking for months. ("We have destroyed two tanks, fighter planes, two helicopters and their shovels!") He even spawned a popular fan site that's way out of date but still live. Let's hop in our scratched-and-dented wayback Humvee and fact-check some of the classic 2003 rants of Baghdad Bob. Was he really wrong about everything? The answer may shock you…


"I speak better English than this villain Bush!" [TRUE!]


"You have ruined the reputation of the American people in the most terrible way! Shame on you!" [TRUE!]

"The midget Bush and that Rumsfield [sic] deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere." [TRUE!]

"They are a superpower of villains, really. They are a super power of Al Capone. This is the real reputation of this gang." [TRUE!]

"The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever
people came to elect such a stupid president." [TRUE!]

"Even those who live on another planet, if there are such people, would have condemned this action before it started!" [TRUE!]

Meanwhile America's neocons---aka the Very Serious People---said that there were WMDs, Iraq had a hand in the 9/11 attacks, the smoking gun could come in the form of a mushroom cloud, Iraq was buying uranium from Africa, the war would be quick and glorious and cheap, and the Sunnis would lay down with the Shia like lambs at a petting zoo. [FALSE!]

Twits in ties vs. a buffoon in a beret. Monty Python should sue them all for infringement.



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/25/1309226/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Wednesday