Rumsfeld Is Ace of Spades in French Deck of Cards

Reuters ^ | Sept. 25, 2003 | Mark John

[Pyro7480]

I have no idea. You may want to look at the old threads on the Protest Warrior people.

[tioga]

FR is still new to me -- first pics of a picnic with older posters, then this young woman. I was turned on to this site by a young man my children's age, you have no age bias here, a great mix of people.

[Cindy]

And here in America, we have this from a High School Teacher....


OPERATION HIDDEN AGENDA.com
http://www.operationhiddenagenda.com

[Yardstick]

Ah, there she is! Bashing France and looking fabulous as always.

[Rutles4Ever]

Sigh... I've been on this board for quite some time. My original handle is "Dirk McQuickly". I am unable to log in with my password for some reason. I've made repeated e-mails to retrieve it, but I believe the orig. address I registered with is now defunct, so I can't get the stinkin' e-mail with the password. Capiche?

[Arrowhead1952]

Sorry 'bout that. I'll slap myself for you.

[baseballfanjm]

In the 2000 election, the Court stopped a potentially decisive recount in Florida, a move that handed the presidency to Bush.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't almost every media recount, recounts intended to prove that Bush lost, find that if the recounts had gone as Gore had planned, Bush would have won anyway? I don't count Democrats.com here. There's no way they'd have ever found Bush to have won.

[geedee]

FR is still new to me

Welcome aboard!!!!!

We're oftentimes a surly bunch . . . but only because we're passionate about our country and the internet and websites like FR has given us silent-majority types an outlet to vent.

You'll like it here. FReepers, by and large, are a compassionate lot. And for those that aren't . . . just ignore us.

[monday]

"We've already sold some 2,500 decks. "



Hah... thats nothing. This is such a non-story. Sure doesn't take much to get you guys excited. You shouldn't let bozos like these guys raise your blood pressure. It isn't worth it.

[Ruth A.]

"We were shocked by the indecency of the cards distributed by the U.S. military. It was as if arresting people was some kind of game," Meyssan told Reuters on Thursday.

They are deliberately misinterpreting the cards. As I understand, the cards are not made of regular playing card material and will not withstand that use. The compact size makes them easy to carry and store. The deck is something of a mnenomic device.

In contrast the French assertions in the American deck are preposterous, dated and took how many months to contrive. Poor Lafeyette is turning in his grave.

[colorado tanker]

And belly girl bathes and shaves her pits, unlike Frenchwomen.

[dufekin]

Rumsfeld for President? He is old, but he must be doing something very right. After all, the French are mad.

[Helms]

[AmishDude]

You might want to put that info on your About page.

[My2Cents]

Mega-bump!

[My2Cents]

Ace of Hearts - Franklin Graham - Hey Froggies, what does he have to do with the Bush administration?

The French hate Christians.

[TexKat]

Cheese eating monkey see, cheese eating monkey do.

[TexKat]

In French Deck, Bush Is King of Diamonds

PARIS - 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.

President of the United States George W. Bush as King of Diamonds is part of a card deck depicting 'the 52 most dangerous American officials', sold by the French group Reseau Voltaire (Voltaire Network) is seen in this hand out photo. Caption under photograph reads : 'Head of a baseball club and director of Salem bin Laden's oil company (brother of Osama). Designated President of the United States by friends of his father at the Supreme Court before the vote count showed that he lost the elections'. A little over 2, 500 decks have been sold on the internet in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Reseau Voltaire)

"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."

Meyssan is the author of a one-time French best seller, "9-11: The Big Lie," claiming that no plane ever crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, and that the attacks were plotted by a faction within the U.S. military.

Now, Meyssan said in a telephone interview, he wants to expose "the 52 most dangerous American officials."

Meyssan heads the Voltaire Network, a left-wing association that put the cards on its Internet site.

A little over 2,500 decks a la francaise have been sold, at $9.20 each, on the Internet in recent weeks, Meyssan said. There are plans to sell the decks in stores soon and translate them into 10 languages, he said.

Each card carries a photo of the official and a text explaining the choice. Bush, as the king of diamonds, is described as "the president of a baseball club."

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On the Net:

http://www.reseauvoltaire.net/bushregimedeck.html

[finnman69]

let's retarget our ICBMs on Paris.

[baseballmom]

"Belly Girl" became a favorite of the male species of Free Republic during the combat phase of the Iraq war. She belongs to the anti-protest group protestwarrior.com who would position themselves in the heart of the anti-war protests. They came up with some very clever signs, and the anti war protesters were too dumb to catch on.

During the "live" threads of Operation Iraqi Freedom her picture was posted at the beginning of each daily thread.