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Coco Maui
24th April 2003, 12:53 AM
This website is hilarious...
http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/?project=minister


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jcat
24th April 2003, 06:32 PM
It is funny. The guy has quite an imagination.

katl8e
1st May 2003, 01:37 AM
I read today that he's been offered a job, by Al-Dubayia TV, as a commentator. They've already hired the former UN ambassador.

jcat
1st May 2003, 03:24 PM
Yesterday our local newspaper reported that an Arab-language London-based paper had a story saying the "Minister of Misinformation" was negotiating with U.S. troops to turn himself in, but they told him they weren't interested because he wasn't in the deck of cards. Did anyone else hear that?

katl8e
1st May 2003, 07:02 PM
No, I just heard that he was holed up at his aunt's house, in Baghdad. He DOES need a job, though. Is there an Arabic National Enquirer or Weekly World News?

jcat
2nd May 2003, 09:05 PM
Here's the latest from TIME:
"MISINFORMATION MANIA
The fighting in Iraq may have subsided, but it seems companies have only just begun to exploit the commercial potential of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, the reality defying Iraqi Information Minister. Companies on at least three continents are already using al-Sahhaf in their marketing. The Northlands Park racecourse in Alberta, Canada, recently ran an ad suggesting the Information Minister would make a good race commentator since 'a little inaccuracy [makes] a race more exciting'; in Kuwait City, the designer boutique Villa Moda is giving away promotional T shirts that bear a picture of al-Sahhaf and the slogan 'We even control fashion'; and low-cost Ryanair produced an advertisement suggesting that the 'lowest fares' claims of its rival easyJet may be as valid as al-Sahhaf's pronouncements. Under other circumstances, al-Sahhaf might have had a career in advertising."

TNCatFancier
2nd May 2003, 10:39 PM
Well, you got to hand it to him. He was the only comedy relief available to us in this war and he did a great job.:D

katl8e
2nd May 2003, 11:09 PM
Do you suppose that he's getting any royalties, from those dolls?:D

katl8e
3rd May 2003, 08:28 PM
Got this funny today:



http://www.amazinghumor.com/p.shtml?0523.jpg

jcat
3rd May 2003, 08:31 PM
That's good!