What if Baghdad Bob Was Right All along? [View All]

[madinmaryland]

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."

Three years into a war that has gone worse than expected for America and its coalition allies, it would be hard to find anyone in Washington -- with the notable exception of Mr. Bush -- who doesn't agree with him now.

It wasn't the first time old Baghdad Bob said something prescient. Even buffoons are capable of connecting the dots in ways that would put our current president to shame.

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http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1208-30.htm

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"The shock has backfired on them," Baghdad Bob said in one of his rants shortly after the war began. "They are shocked because of what they have seen. No one received them with roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets. Now the game has been exposed."

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