Rumsfeld Is Ace of Spades in French Deck of Cards

Reuters ^ | Sept. 25, 2003 | Mark John

[Rutles4Ever]

PARIS (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the Ace of Spades and al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden a Joker in a provocative pack of French playing cards depicting "the 52 most dangerous American officials."

A riposte to the "most-wanted" cards of Iraqi leaders issued to U.S. soldiers, the deck is the latest commercial offering by a radical thinktank whose conspiracy theory account of the September 11 attacks stormed French bestseller charts last year.

"We've already sold some 2,500 decks. That's not bad considering we couldn't find anyone who was willing to print them at first," said Thierry Meyssan, president of the Paris-based Reseau Voltaire group.

"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.

Two hundred packs of the original Pentagon-devised U.S. cards were sent to U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The American public has since snapped up hundreds of thousands of the decks, which portray Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as the Ace of Spades.

The French cards bestow that honor not on President Bush but Rumsfeld. Under his mugshot, he is accused of using the September 11 attacks "to increase military budgets and plan an army in space that could completely dominate Earth."

As King of Diamonds -- the suit chosen to represent economic power in the U.S. administration -- Bush is described merely as "head of a baseball club... designated president of the United States by friends of his father at the Supreme Court."

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

Osama bin Laden, whose al Qaeda network Washington blames for the September 11 attacks on U.S. landmarks, is a Joker described as "a CIA agent charged...with provoking a clash between the 'Arab-Muslim' and 'Judaeo-Christian' worlds."

Meyssan won notoriety for his book "L'Effroyable Imposture" ("The Appalling Fraud"), which suggested U.S. military insiders were probably behind the September 11 attacks. ($1=0.87 Euro)

[Rutles4Ever]

How charming.

[Rutles4Ever]

Know thy enemy

[Bikers4Bush]

The french have not been our friends or allies for a long, long time.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Trumped...

[F.J. Mitchell]

When do we get to see the cards?

This little caper wouldn't mean diddly, ordinarily, just what to expect from the source. The thing that makes it serious is the fact that it probably has the blessings of Pompousdude and Villanpigpen as well.

France is digging itself into a hole that Government to Government it may someday get out of, but American Citizen to French Citizen on an idividual one on one basis will, will never heal.

[Arrowhead1952]

Rutles4Ever

Since 2003-09-24

I smell TROLL

[50sDad]

If true, this is a great example of "What Not To Do." I want to see those decks for sale in the front window of every travel agency in America. Hey, Mr. Frenchy-Frenchman, do you think it makes sense to take the American tourist market and further alienate it, when you lost 1/3rd of it just being obnoxiously French last year?

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

That's not bad considering we couldn't find anyone who was willing to print them at first," >>

Well, they should have known they would not have had trouble. Paris is full of whores on a Saturday night.

[exile]

no surprise. Everyone knows FRANCE SUCKS.

[Pyro7480]

[AmericanInTokyo]

Here it is. I found one of them on the internet:

They appear to be at:

http://www.reseauvoltaire.net/article9576.html

Of course they have Dick Cheney and Condi Rice right up there at the top.

[Pagey]

Saying that Don R."...increase military budgets and plan an army in space that could completely dominate Earth."

Well, if that is all that think tank can worry about.......It must be special to have your nose stuck so far up in that rarefied air, that you become dizzy and awestruck when you see a strong human emerge from across the water. Strength and assertiveness aren't strong french qualities, so it's no wonder they feel threatened by a Real Man.

[Yardstick]

That poster is the perfect riposte to France's little riposte.... but where's Belly Girl?

[aynrandfreak]

We could come out with a French deck, but I don't think many Americans could identify more than 7-8 French people (which must drive them crazy)

[Arrowhead1952]

I don't think many Americans could identify more than 7-8 French people (which must drive them crazy)

The only one I could identify, would be the "French Looking RAT presidential" candidate Ketchup Kerry.

[RedWhiteBlue]

They can't come up with an original idea?? That sure speaks volumes as to the level of intelligence of those who initiated this "project." Given this self-demonstrated low intelligence, it is no wonder they come to such strange conclusions regarding the world around them.

[Pyro7480]

My popular demand....

[tioga]

is SHE a FReeper?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[Rummy] is accused of using the September 11 attacks "to increase military budgets and plan an army in space that could completely dominate Earth."

Sounds like a plan to me. So, what's the downside? (I think this guy's seen too many episodes of "Pinky and the Brain".)

[exile]

Please allow me to do some analysis.

Ace of Spades - Donald Rumsfeld - The French hate senior citizens.

D(???? assume this is Queen) of spades - Condi Rice - The French hate women and blacks.

2 of Spades - Henry Kissinger - The french hate Germans (unless they invade France, in which case they manufacture bombs for them)

Ace of Diamonds - Dick Cheney - The french enjoy picking on people with heart conditions. It makes them feel big, because they lack a spine.

R (??? assume King?)of Diamonds - President George W. Bush - The french simply hate America, even though we saved their cowardly butts from the Nazis only 60 years ago.

Nine of Diamonds - Warren Buffett???? This one is a head scratcher my friends. I think the Frogs are too busy chain smoking and drinking wine to know what side he's on.

Six of Diamonds - George Schultz - Our stinky froggies don't know what the stinking year is.

Three of Diamonds - Hamid Karzai - Guess mr Frenchy Frenchman would rather have the Taliban in power.

D (Assume Queen, hey France, why don't you drop that retarded language of yours for something that makes more sense, like pig latin, or Esperanto) of Clubs - Jeanne Kirkpatrick - For god's sake, the last time Jeanne Kirkpatrick was in the news was the 80's

Six of Clubs - Otto Reich - Well, well, well, it looks like there's one Reich they don't bow to.

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

V (assume Jack) of hearts - Colin Powell - guess the froggies don't like black men either.

eight of hearts - Newt Gingrich - Hey France, you cheese eating, chain smoking losers! Gingrich is not Speaker of the house anymore!!! I think all those Jerry Lewis movies are rotting the horse cr@p you call your brains.

Six of Hearts - William Kristol - The Froggies don't like people who publish magazines with big words in them. They'd probably read anything Larry Flynt puts out. (If the chicks had hairy pits and all)

Joker - Osamma Bin Ladin - I hope the next time some dictator invades your stupid little turd of a country, that the US will let you suffer like the little pansies you are.