French card deck names 'most dangerous' U.S. leaders

[True_Blue]

PARIS, France (AP) -- The ace of spades? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gets the honor in a new French deck of cards. President Bush is the king of diamonds and Osama bin Laden the joker.

The game takes a jab at the famous deck of cards created for U.S. soldiers hunting down ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and other leaders from the deposed regime.

"I found it completely indecent to present a manhunt as a game," said Thierry Meyssan, the man behind the French deck. "We thought this card game would allow us to ... explain why we consider the government of George Bush a threat to international security."

Meyssan is the author of a one-time French best seller, "9-11: The Big Lie," claiming that no plane ever crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, and that the attacks were plotted by a faction within the U.S. military.

more...
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/09/25/france.us.carddeck.ap/index.html

[Myra]

1. Must own cards

And I want them in French, 'cause what I
hear in French makes more sense than what
I hear in English.

Here's the website where they're for sale!

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.reseauvoltaire.net/&prev=/search%3Fq%3DVoltaire%2BNetwork%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG

(Voltaire Network)

[hussar]

2. I see on the link you can send the deck to a friend

Now let me see, who could I possibly send them to ?

:think:

[Hogarth]

3. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!

n/t

[saigon68]

7. OUTRAGEOUSLY FUNNY

get a load of "Admiral" John Poindexter "Narco Terrorist Extraordinaire"

[emad]

4. Check out the Russian deck:

at:

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/09/26/offbeat.russia.cards.reut/index.html



In the decks, which are selling out in Moscow, Bush's father, former President George Bush, is the ace of hearts, while Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is the ace of spades

[emad]

5. He should be Queen of Spades....

or perhaps The Joker....

[Maeve]

8. That's Condi. Oooo, bad move!

Tacky, tacky, tacky--the French should know better than that!(Or should have done more research) Offensive racial double entendre hurts the whole concept.

[drewb]

6. It's "cute" and "clever" when we do it....

But not so much when they do it to us....

Well, I guess we got the "leaders" we deserve...

Everyone vote in the next election, let's get some new "leaders"...

[forgethell]

9. It ALWAYS

depends on "whose ox was gored". No surprise there.

[pippin]

10. death card et al

http://www.reseauvoltaire.net/image/jeudecarte-en/big/!joker2.jpg

[VolcanoJen]

11. Not really LBN...

This thread was first started in LBN by GiovanniC on Thursday, September 25, and was moved from LBN to the General Discussion Forum at that time. Here's that thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=404237

There's also a newer GD thread about this, started by RatTerrier, which can be found here (it also links back to this LBN thread!):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=409379

Out of fairness and in keeping with the rules of the LBN forum, it's best to lock this thread and keep the discussion going in GD.

Thanks!
VolcanoJen
DU Moderator