Silent_One
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We Love the Iraqi Information Minister.Com!
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Joe DeFuria
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Yeah this guy is quite a character no question. In the last two weeks I would watch the press conferences in the morning when they were held.(Both his and centcoms) In the last weeks though there began to be some real discrepancies in what was being said. However in the last week he held these press conferences it became obvious that he was bullshiting to the max. They did get very very comical particularly when he tried his hand at english. My sakes the last few that I saw it nearly put me in hysterics. There was something at this point that made me somewhat sympathetic to his cause though.... and that being he was so desperate he would say the things he did. Desperation seems to identify the source of sympathy.
Don't get me wrong .... I think particularly if I was a US soldier he would hang off the end of my bayonet. In fact if I was an Iraqi I'd hang him for trying to provoke me into defending Baghdad against impossible odds. I couldn't believe what this guy was saying ..... it sounded so outrageous that I thought initially that there might be a grain of truth since the media filter seemed so thick. In the end though his conferences were a total sham (if they weren't always.) and I became upset that the media actually covered his conferences.
Meanwhile via Al Jeezera and other Arab news media the Arab world is strangely seduced by this character and suicide bombers/militants think that Iraqi people are totally against the US lead removal of Saddams regime. Clearly the skewed message that Arabs got at the time betrays the jubilation that we see now. On that note we can only be sure that these same media are only focusing on the looters and that the US military is doing nothing to stifle the anarchy. This is of course what the Arab community wants to see... the evil works of Americans and so on. After all Al Jeezera and other Arab news cater to what these people want to see.
Don't get me wrong .... I think particularly if I was a US soldier he would hang off the end of my bayonet. In fact if I was an Iraqi I'd hang him for trying to provoke me into defending Baghdad against impossible odds. I couldn't believe what this guy was saying ..... it sounded so outrageous that I thought initially that there might be a grain of truth since the media filter seemed so thick. In the end though his conferences were a total sham (if they weren't always.) and I became upset that the media actually covered his conferences.
Meanwhile via Al Jeezera and other Arab news media the Arab world is strangely seduced by this character and suicide bombers/militants think that Iraqi people are totally against the US lead removal of Saddams regime. Clearly the skewed message that Arabs got at the time betrays the jubilation that we see now. On that note we can only be sure that these same media are only focusing on the looters and that the US military is doing nothing to stifle the anarchy. This is of course what the Arab community wants to see... the evil works of Americans and so on. After all Al Jeezera and other Arab news cater to what these people want to see.
PurplePigeon
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Iraq's marvellous minister of (mis)information
The (tongue-in-cheek) last paragraph suggests some would like to see him survive and get his own talk show on Al Jazeera. Who knows, stranger things have happened...
The (tongue-in-cheek) last paragraph suggests some would like to see him survive and get his own talk show on Al Jazeera. Who knows, stranger things have happened...
Even the media is getting in on it:
Deflection
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Looks like Donald Rumsfeld has his own fan following too
http://www.esquire.com/humor/thiswayout/020601_mtw_rumsfeld.html
http://www.esquire.com/humor/thiswayout/020601_mtw_rumsfeld.html