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Date Posted: 01:47:32 04/17/03 Thu
Author: Reportorial Lion
Author Host/IP: qam1c-sif-39.monroeaccess.net / 12.27.215.40
Subject: A new job for Baghdad Bob


Not everyone has suffered as a result of the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein tyranny of terror in Iraq. Today we learned that "Baghdad Bob," Saddam Hussein's now unemployed Minister of Information, has landed a new and important job.


Everyone remembers Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf ("Baghdad Bob" as he came to be known) standing every day before members of the international press, especially the Arab language media, claiming that coalition forces were being routed by Iraqi soldiers all over the country and that no Americans were at Baghdad Airport or even in Baghdad despite the noise of American M-1A Abrams tanks rumbling on the other side of the public square from his press briefing.


His inflated - and often comical - claims of scores of American aircraft and motorized calvary equipment being destroyed by the "citizens of Iraq" and coalition soldiers drowning in a sea of their own blood became a staple of nightly news reports and even monologues by Jay Leno and David Letterman. The only people to believe him were obviously Al Jezeera's field reporters, Abu Dhabi television's correspondents, along with Tim Robbins, Susan Saranden, Janeanne Garafolo, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Ramsey Clark, Barbra Streissand, the Dixie Chicks and Ed Asner.


Washington insiders are reporting today that al-Sahhaf will begin his new position on Monday as the Minister of Information for Tom Daschle and his Senate Dumbocan cohorts. Daschle has tasked al-Sahhaf with presenting the Dumbocan's position that Senate Dumbocans are really trying to prevent President Bush and the Repooblicrats from stealing money from the majority of taxpayers who earn less than $12,000 per year with his tax cut proposals.


The Senate Dumbocan Committee is also counting on al-Sahhaf to get out their message to voters that they are simply trying to present a positive program for the American economy and the American citizens who really don't need a tax cut or federal judges. We understand that al-Sahhaf will be able to earn extra cash by promoting Teddy Kennedy's joint venture with Gary Condit, a new driving and swim school for young female Congressional interns and staffers and Senator Robert Byrd's new personal flight school for enraged patriots.


When questioned about funding for the new al-Sahhaf position, Tom Daschle stated that money for al-Sahhaf's pay will be derived from the unused one-way airline tickets never used by Barbara Streissand and Alec Baldwin as well as proceeds from the increased Dixie Chickss records sales resulting from their "principled stand" on London and Australian stages.


You're never going to get this kind of hard-hitting, accurate news reporting from CNN, the New York Times, Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times.




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