Let's have a laugh at old Baghdad Bob

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Shall we do some mocking for a few minutes? Let's have a laugh at old Baghdad Bob, as he was called in the US, or Comical Ali in the UK, the chap who asked of the Coalition "Who are in control? They are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!"I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place.

These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.

That bastard the American Minister of Defense Rumsfeld, and I won't say shamelessly, because they don't know what shame means. These are criminals. The whole word can hear the warning sirens. This criminal sitting in the White House is a pathetic criminal and his Defense Minister deserves to be beaten. These criminals lie to the world because they are criminals by nature and conditioning. They consider this a military site! Shame on you! You will forever be shamed! You have ruined the reputation of the American people in the most terrible way! Shame on you! And we will destroy you!

I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place.

I speak better English than this villain Bush.

Yesterday we heard this villain called Rumsfeld. He, of course, is a war criminal, and he is one of the worst of the American rulers. He said the American mercenaries and the British mercenaries, they are defending themselves inside Iraq. They are in a defensive position. They are engaged in self-defense. They are fighting a self-defense war inside Iraq. Well, congratulations, Mr. Villain, you are defending yourself inside our country. We will show you what defense means.

Bush is a very stupid man. 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.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire

We expect the aggressors to use anything, we don't rule out that in their depression at being vanquished, those losers will become hysterical and commit even more folly.

They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.He was the Iraqi Minister of Information, you'll remember. What a silly chap he was to think that Coalition plans for reconstructing Iraq along democratic lines would collapse into chaos. Oh how we howled derisively every time he had the nerve to say any of this.

[Bryn Mawr]

'twas more the claims that Iraqi forces were winning battles a hundred miles from Baghdad voiced over pictures of fighting in the outskirts.

Having said that, and having mentioned in passing how Chemical Ali, as he was previously known, was responsible for the massacre of thousands of Kurds, can we really claim that Iraq is better off now?

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Two different chaps entirely, dear boy. Chemical Ali, or Ali Hassan al-Majid to give him his proper name, was arrested by United States forces on August 17, 2003 and sentenced to death last month (on June 24th, which I notice is more than 30 days ago, something odd's happened to his 30-day appeal process limit). He received five death sentences for genocide, crimes against humanity (specifically willful killing, forced disappearances and extermination), and war crimes (intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population).

Comical Ali, on the other hand, is Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf and currently lives in the UAE. He surrendered to Coalition forces in July 2003 and was released within weeks. Given that he held many of the same portfolios as Tariq Aziz over the years I'm not sure why they're in such different circumstances. Tariq Aziz was arrested at about the same time and he's still in US custody, still uncharged and untried, and not a happy bunny at all. I have it in mind that Tariq Aziz and Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf would make a fair fist of rebuilding Iraq if they were allowed to form an administration and get on with it. I doubt it will happen.

[Nomad]

I loved that guy. He was a real fluffball. :-6

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Nomad;666606 wrote: I loved that guy. He was a real fluffball. :-6Here you go then, this is the guy's professional competitor - one half of the Blair Bush Project comedy act, being interviewed a month before Iraq was "liberated":TONY BLAIR: They were concealing their weapons, they lied both about the existence of their nuclear weapons programme and their biological weapons programme and it was only when people were interviewed, when they defected from the Iraq regime and were interviewed, that we discovered the existence, full existence of those programmes at all. [...] What he is doing is engaging in a systematic campaign of concealment and what Colin Powell was doing yesterday was giving evidence, for example, intelligence evidence and other evidence, of direct conversations which are evidence of the concealment is happening. [...]

JEREMY PAXMAN: And you believe American intelligence?

TONY BLAIR: Well I do actually believe this intelligence -

JEREMY PAXMAN: Because there are a lot of dead people in an aspirin factory in Sudan who don't.

TONY BLAIR: Come on. This intelligence is backed up by our own intelligence and in any event, you know, we're not coming to this without any history. I mean let's not be absurdly naïve about this -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/n ... 732979.stm

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Oh and another utter polished gem from the same interview, while I'm at it. It's odd that Comical Ali had such a better grasp of cause and effect than Tony Blair managed:JEREMY PAXMAN: You know your defence intelligence assessment is that there is currently no link between Baghdad and al-Qaeda.

TONY BLAIR: No they didn't say that. What they said was - which is absolutely right - is that historically al-Qaeda which wants these Arab states to become religious states. That al-Qaeda obviously would regard Iraq as a secular state and relations between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein would not have been of any great historical importance, that is not to say in circumstances where Iraq faces a threat from possible military action and al-Qaeda have also been subject to action being pursued at international level they aren't coming together and there is evidence that links the two. I've never suggested that.Where did the Iraqi secular state go? Where did all the hijabs suddenly spring from? We shift from "Iraq as a secular state" and "currently no link between Baghdad and al-Qaeda" to a religion-divided al-Qaeda springboard through one single event - "liberation". Comical Ali understood it. "You will reap nothing from this aggressive war which you launched on Iraq, except for disgrace and defeat" and "Do not be hasty because your disappointment will be huge" are far more precise indicators of history than "there is evidence that links the two". The one sees cause and effect, the other just knows where he wants to get to regardless of reality.

May we give Tariq Aziz and Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf back their country now, please? It needs cleaning.