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2003-03-20 Iraq

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-03-20 01:25 pm|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We'll just have to ask Dan Rather and get his expert assessment and opionion on this matter.

Posted by Alaska Paul 3/20/2003 1:30:01 PM|| 3/20/2003 1:30:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I have watched this story flip flop all day long. Maybe it will be "convienently him" until such time as we can get in to the site of last nights attack and scrape some bugsplat off the wall to win this round of "Where's Waldo".
I did hear that US intellegence is not known to have any known DNA from the big tuna so we may have work to have the "Real Slim Shady Please Stand up"

Posted by Capsu78 3/20/2003 3:04:51 PM|| 3/20/2003 3:04:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 We'll just have to ask Dan Rather and get his expert assessment and opionion on this matter.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-03-20 13:30:01|| 2003-03-20 13:30:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Those "Harry Carey" glasses, which have never been seen before, wouldn't seem to be casual reading glasses to me. I'd like to think maybe one of his Elvis impersonators was pushed into action and forced to read a prepared statement... but,but I ccaann'tt rread without my glasses, Osay... Please don't throw me in the shreader! or if you do make it head first!
The "Mr Magoo" look does not jive with a egomanic despot trying thumb his nose at "BOOSH Junior"...

Posted by Capsu78 2003-03-20 13:40:56|| 2003-03-20 13:40:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe he lost his contact lenses.

Posted by El Id 2003-03-20 13:44:53|| 2003-03-20 13:44:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey, Saddam,
Did the mustache come with the nose and glasses, or did you buy it seperately!

I crack myself up!

Posted by Capsu78 2003-03-20 13:51:10|| 2003-03-20 13:51:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Do they make Coke bottle contact lenses?

Posted by Fred 2003-03-20 13:51:42|| 2003-03-20 13:51:42|| Front Page Top

#8 And, of course, a French beret...

Posted by Raj 2003-03-20 14:04:24|| [angrycyclist.blogspot.com/] 2003-03-20 14:04:24|| Front Page Top

#9 The photo #3 has been bothering me all day. At first I thought it resembled Captain Peacock of the brit com "Are you being served". Now it has come to me. It looks lie the photos of Groucho when he was 70 or 60 years old.

Posted by Jim 2003-03-20 14:04:30|| 2003-03-20 14:04:30|| Front Page Top

#10 *shakes head* I don't think so. I'm sure Iraqui radars picked up the incoming missiles, radioed the news to whereever Saddam was, and they hightailed it from whereever they were to the Secret Bunker (tm).

Crap. I just realized: We should have used the MOAB on the main presidential palace even if Saddam wasn't there: it would have demolished the access manways and disabled the elevators so he couldn't use it...

Posted by Ptah 2003-03-20 14:14:43|| 2003-03-20 14:14:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, Fox is now reporting that US intelligence (I think) was saying that it was him after all.

Those glasses shocked me. Surely that would be considered a sign of less-than-complete studliness. That and the fading mustache dye.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2003-03-20 14:44:02|| [darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2003-03-20 14:44:02|| Front Page Top

#12 I have watched this story flip flop all day long. Maybe it will be "convienently him" until such time as we can get in to the site of last nights attack and scrape some bugsplat off the wall to win this round of "Where's Waldo".
I did hear that US intellegence is not known to have any known DNA from the big tuna so we may have work to have the "Real Slim Shady Please Stand up"

Posted by Capsu78 2003-03-20 15:04:51|| 2003-03-20 15:04:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Fred: Late news today is reporting it may have been him. People who used to work for H' said he's recently had eye surgery, possible cateracts. Also he doesn't do speeches well because of the eye problems (the HUMAT reports.) Also note the droopy left side. Possible stroke? hm ?

Posted by Mary Lu 2003-03-20 17:03:52|| [radio.weblogs.com/0100243] 2003-03-20 17:03:52|| Front Page Top

#14 Thats not saddam,its percy dovetonsils from the old ernie kovacs show!

http://www.crownvicsetc.com/erniekovacs.html

(about half way down the page)

Posted by Frank Martin 2003-03-20 17:57:59|| [varifrank.blogspot.com] 2003-03-20 17:57:59|| Front Page Top

#15 I forgot Mark Bowden's interview and article for The Atlantic Online.Saddam's eyesight has worsened a lot with age.It IS likely that he has used contacts to hide this condition whenever in front of cameras,and that's why I think it's the real mccoy.

Posted by El Id 2003-03-20 18:09:37|| 2003-03-20 18:09:37|| Front Page Top

#16 H couldn't find his contacts in the confusion after the blast, so he borrowed someone else's reading glasses. Too much wallboard dust in his eyes to wear contacts, anyway...

Posted by Tresho 2003-03-20 19:15:40|| 2003-03-20 19:15:40|| Front Page Top

#17 Doesn't matter if it was Sammy or not. I'd have the Commando Solo planes broadcasting that it was, that Sammy's dead, and that the new regime in Baghdad has instructed all units to cease firing and lay down their weapons to the Allied forces.

And when Sammy popped up again to say that he still had a lung capacity > 0, I'd have the Solo planes broadcast that he was a double. I'd demand that he show us the mole on his tush, the one we know that only Sammy has, on TV, in public.

I could have lots of fun, if only they'd let me do the broadcasts.

Posted by Steve White 2003-03-20 19:26:47|| 2003-03-20 19:26:47|| Front Page Top

#18 "Saddam and his senior leadership were either incapacitated or out of communication with battlefield commanders"

Sammy couldn't get through because their lines were all busy as the battlefield commanders called the US to defect. "Thank you for calling Tommy Franks, your call will be answered in the order it was recieved...music.....your call is very important to us..please don't hang up, your expected wait time will be..."

Posted by becky 2003-03-20 19:48:09|| 2003-03-20 19:48:09|| Front Page Top

#19 damn becky... I thought you weren't an expert! That was pretty professional. Sandbagging?

Posted by Frank G 2003-03-20 21:45:53|| 2003-03-20 21:45:53|| Front Page Top

#20 terpsboy has a morphed Helen Thomas into Saddam. And Mr. Whipple.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-21 01:31:15|| 2003-03-21 01:31:15|| Front Page Top

#21 Saddam is moonlighting as a French fashion designer.Scarfs are in.

Posted by Brew 2003-03-21 01:49:00|| 2003-03-21 01:49:00|| Front Page Top

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