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

[PunkinPi]

snip<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."

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

Vive la France! :)

[pippin]

1. See existing thread on this subject

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=133384

[PunkinPi]

2. oops, my bad ;)

[beaver tamer]

3. bin laden and uu should be switched....nt

[cosmicdot]

4. in some of the linked threads, someone brought up the Russian deck

I googled a bit yesterday hoping to find more card photos, but no luck.



http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/europe/view/49889/1/.html