U.S. Deck of most-wanted Iraqis falls short

[Cocoa]

Remember when Iraq was a game? Remember when Tim Russert and the other whores gleefully displayed this stupid propaganda toy like it was meaningful.

This article doesn't mention something that I heard, that none of these decks actually made it into the hands of any actual troops.


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&u=/ap/iraq_deck_of_cards&printer=1

WASHINGTON - The Ace of Spades was captured. The Ace of Clubs and Ace of Hearts were killed. Of the most-wanted Iraqis included in a deck of playing cards distributed last year by the U.S. military, all but 10 are in custody or dead.

The problem has turned out to be the people who weren't in the deck.
There was no card for radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose followers have been battling U.S. and Iraqi forces at a shrine in Najaf. Nor is there one for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian blamed for suicide attacks, kidnappings and the killing of hostages in Iraq .

Critics call it a sign that the United States did not have a handle on the complexities of Iraq, nor on who might prove to be the biggest threat once President Saddam Hussein was gone. Despite progress on the "most-wanted" list, a bloody insurgency continues.

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[lapfog_1]

1. Hey!

I got a deck of "most wanted Iraqi" cards, still in the original
wrapper (unopened), given to me by poker great Amir Vahedi.

[Inland]

2. Remember, the only reason we made a goal of capturing Iraqi leadership

was because we failed to capture AlQaeda. As we went from finding WMD to finding WMD programs to finding WMD program related activity to finding potential WMD program related activity to a finding a desire to have potential WMD program related activity. And the constantly lowering of standards for good jobs and econ. growth. This admin just keeps the shell game going to cover up its miserable failure.