US unveils new secret weapon (transvestite Saddam)

[Newsjock]

Honest to goodness, this is from The Guardian, not The Onion.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1020834,00.html

Jamie Wilson in Baghdad
Monday August 18, 2003
The Guardian

First they tried to bomb him, then they tried the offer of a reward. They even released images of what he might look like with no hair.

But now the US army would appear to be getting desperate with its latest ploy to catch Saddam Hussein: pictures of the elusive dictator as Hollywood sex goddess.

In a scheme likely to raise as many laughs among Iraq's hardline Islamic clerics as Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, troops of the 4th Infantry brigade in Tikrit are planning to put up pictures around the town of Saddam's face superimposed on the bodies of a busty Veronica Lake, a slinky Zsa Zsa Gabor, a grooving Elvis and British-born rocker Billy Idol.

The aim, apparently, is to so enrage Saddam's followers that they will draw themselves out.

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[PartyPooper]

1. "Don't ask, don't tell"?

I thought that was the 'official' position of the U.S. Army.

This seems a bit hypocritical and dishonest to me.

:eyes:

[Cush]

2. this will work

...sure it will. No, really, it will......

[JackSwift]

3. Why do we spend so much on weapons

when we could spend more on quality Pentagon writers. This sounds desparate to me.

[alaine]

5. great sig. line (n/t)

[MrPrax]

4. Pipelines blown up, mortars shelling prisons...

and this is the best they can come up with...
Their whipped ...
I figured the 'coalition' apologized for tearing down the religious banner...and now this...
Sharon must be running the show...

[matcom]

6. Once again I'm So Proud To Be An 'Murikkan

:eyes:

saw this on CNN this morning. Saddam in drag. what a fucking disgrace.

CNN talking head 'reported' that they were putting these pics up all over Baghdad to 'bait' the opposition out of hiding and fight face to face.

Actually said that the 'Murikkan Soldiers were "tired of getting shot" from people in the bushes and wanted to fight "fair and square"

:wtf:

--"Bring 'Em On" :puke: