U.S. Issues Most-Wanted Deck of Cards (Iraq)

AP | 4/11/03 | NICOLE WINFIELD

[GraniteStateConservative]

We discussed on the OIF thread Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf's disappearance and it was suggested that maybe he was captured and we're keeping it a secret. Apparently, he wasn't, or Gen. Brooks would have answered the question about his being on the cards differently.

Our intelligence is piss-poor in my opinion if we can't get a media ham like Baghdad Bob in our clutches, and it makes me wonder about the accuracy of the "we knew where Saddam was and we blew him up real good" reports from reporters on the news channels. At least the others stayed in hiding. This really irritates me and it should irritate everyone else that this idiot will probably never be held to account for the things he did in Hussein's regime.

Being Information Minister isn't an entry level job for Joe off the street. I'd bet good money that Bob has killed dissidents personally and I know he's ordered the deaths of dissidents. He should have been the subject of the first Iraqi-judged war tribunal-- have the people of Iraq execute him as they see fit.

[GraniteStateConservative]

I'm sick of hearing people act like Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf is some lovable goofball. He's done and ordered people to do unspeakable acts of evil.

[sharktrager]

Should have made Saddam the Joker, or maybe a Suicide King.

[mikrofon]

The deck to use for that game of Rummy...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

GOOD one !
But I have to claim credit for the original idea of "Mass Murderer Trading Cards," (collect em, respect em)...
I just couldn't get Topps to pick up on the idea.

[salmon76]

Why don't we also print out U.S. soldier cards like baseball cards for all of our heroes? They would sell like hotcakes!!!

Imagine a child jumping up and down and yelling to his dad when he opened the soldier card pack, "I got a Tommy Franks!" or "I got a Jessica Lynch!". These would be huge collector items.

[mikrofon]

Thanks! Too bad your idea didn't take hold :-(

Actually, these new cards might not be all that practical to use, being a "marked" deck...

[Hatteras]

"Why don't we also print out U.S. soldier cards like baseball cards for all of our heroes? They would sell like hotcakes!!!....

...These would be huge collector items."

The Desert Storm Trading Cards put out by Topps in 1991 did sell like hotcakes but as far as being "huge collector items"? You can get a complete mint set on ebay for about $5.00. I put a couple of sets together when they first came out, one I gave to a relative the other I've held onto for sentimental reasons.

But, just wait.... any day now....

[Dog Gone]

Brigadier General Vince Brooks holds up a 55-card deck featuring wanted members of the Saddam Hussein regime.
Photo: Steven Senne, AP
 

[Publius6961]

I want one too!!!

One, hell! I'll take a dozen...

Gifts for my "liberal" friends

[Publius6961]

Why can't someone scan them and post them for the record??

[Richard Axtell]

Ebay! of course. I was wondering where one could get a deck of these cards? Might become a hot item if sold at the Freepstuff website.

[weegee]

Gice it time. Everything old is new again.

Fight the Red Menace

[weegee]

They might have gotten and even bigger response if the deck looked like this.

[Enterprise]

I certainly agree. I don't see how someone can be a highly placed official in that regime without having blood on their hands. He was a cartoonish figure, but in reality he was probably brutal and sadistic.

[Dog Gone]

LOL. Now I need to figure out how that new function works!

[evets]

Aha! Here it is:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2003/030411-D-6570C-001.pdf

(You're welcome.)

[Russian Sage]

I hope they come with a piece of bubble gum.

[Dog Gone]

Wow, that took awhile to load!

[LayoutGuru2]

Check out these lame, outrageous trading cards.
(Barf-Alert, you've been warned)

AMERICAN CRUSADE 2001+ TRADING CARDS
http://yorick.infinitejest.org:81/1/cards.html