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May 30, 2003
In The Absence Of News, Entertainment
If you haven’t noticed, the past several days have been positively slow for news on the stories we follow. We expect today to be no different, and given the generally playful tone in our comments today, Michele and I thought perhaps it might be time to have some fun. After all … it’s a beautiful, warm spring day here in Philadelphia and New York, and while we’re certainly hard at work, it’s a day that just BEGS for distraction. So here’s the proposal: You likely noticed that last weekend we added an “Evildoer” photo and snarky caption to the top-right-column of this page. We’d like to change that snarky caption, and thought today may be a fine day for a caption contest. The “rules”: The photo will stay the samePost your suggestions in the comments to this post; we’ll select a winner in the next day or so and update the page accordingly! Posted By Alan at May 30, 2003 11:44 AM | TrackBack For the saddam photo: Those bubba posts really crack me up sometimes Posted by: Bubba at May 30, 2003 11:49 AM"Al Gore invented this smile!" Posted by: Changeup at May 30, 2003 12:02 PMlook at these nice dentures uday found for me Posted by: Bubba at May 30, 2003 12:08 PMThere is no command post!!! Sorry that should have been "Their servers crashed under our spin!!!" Posted by: Big E at May 30, 2003 12:26 PMOr how about this The Command Post will never win!!! For Saddam photo : Command-Post commentors makes me drool ! Posted by: Dave Dube at May 30, 2003 12:42 PMSaddam photo: Baghdad Bob photo: Saddam Photo: Syrias President Assad says he doubts there ever was such a person as "Saddam Hussein," and that it was all a big plot involving the extensive use of CIA bio-engineered body doubles, saying that "it's illogical that they all could look so similar that even their mistresses couldn't tell them apart." Above body double Ahmed Hashim smiles, admitting that he did fool one or two of the other guys mistresses, including the bosses. Posted by: Assads Drug Dealer at May 30, 2003 01:47 PMDo you realize the peril we face in Iraq? Are you aware that the Baathist party seems to be coordinating a series of hit and run attacks against US troops in Iraq? Are you aware that of the 168 men we've lost in the war, 31 of them have been in May? Are you aware that the timing and rhythm of the attacks appear to mimic the strategy of Giap in Vietnam? First they feint, later they will strike a big blow. This is like the small strikes of the VC, then the feint at Khe Sanh, then the big blow in the Tet Offensive. Sure, we won that battle, but it destroyed public confidence in the war. Sure, we could have escalated beyond what we did, but after Tet '68, the public lost confidence in the war. If I were Saddam, I would be planning my own "Tet" offensive. I don't want to sound paranoid, only cautious. We haven't found the chemical or biological weapons yet. Maybe Saddam has them somewhere, and will use them at a moment of his choosing. I've seen rumors that the Baathists have picked July 27th for their counterstrike. It's the anniversary of the founding of their party. Regardless of the truth of that rumor, the dangling, hanging-on nature of the resistance in Iraq is cause for serious concern. Recently, we sent another 20,000 troops into Iraq. On the up side, we know of no country that is supplying the Baathist resistance. This distinguishes it from Vietnam. Still, if I were running the postwar operation in Iraq, I would do all I could to ramp up security. It is time to utterly crush the opposition, while it is still small. This war is not over. I do not see that peace has been restored, or that the underlying causes of Iraq's tyranny are removed. We need to completely root out the Baathist thugs. We need to make sure Iran's agents and saboteurs are expelled. If we fail in this, eventually Iraq will revert to tyranny. Even if things go wrong, we probably won't lose anywhere near the 58,000 men we lost in Vietname, but every loss is a tragedy, and it would behoove us to achieve all of our war aims. I see far too much triumphalism before we've crossed the finish line. Posted by: Andrew Hagen at May 30, 2003 01:52 PMUnder the Uday photo: Andrew Hagen! My Dad can whip your Dad! Posted by: Dave Dube at May 30, 2003 02:06 PMWe have our finest scientists working in bio-semis on the Syrian border perfecting the most horrific, genetically engineered army of villains the world has ever known. Each of these universal Sadayeen will have my smile, Kim Jong-il's haircut and stature, will speak French, will have Uday's libido, and Assad's ability to convince people they do not exist. He will be bio-engineered not to have grid coordinates and to be capable of living underground forever only communicating via tapes. Once we have set our bio-engineered Sadayeen in motion, it is our initial assessment, infidels, that you are all going to die. Posted by: Limpet at May 30, 2003 02:23 PMUnder SH photo: 'I've given up using WMD for my raison de terre, I'm writing a blog and getting a job at the Guardian! Posted by: devils chewtoy at May 30, 2003 03:07 PMWell, while I was googling around, I can across this; The reason I was searching google, was to find the name of the prison where Uday killed all those people in a day and got daddy his new teeth(dentures) from the lost and found box..... so I could add it to my suggestion for the smiling Saddam pic, and win the prize of just being silly and witty. Andrew Hagen; oops!!!! sorry, it would be better if I added the google link The Command Post: Anti-War Leaders Fear US Fast Food Thre... for some reason, it comes up under a google search for I'm amazed no-one corrected me, it was Qusay not Uday that did the prison murder thing. Anyways, for the saddam smiling pic, it should be "look at theses nice dentures QUSAY found for me in the Abu Ghraib prison Lost and found box". Pics of "dad" and his wonderfull "boys" available here; bubba does more spamming than all of the rest of them! Posted by: devils chewtoy at May 30, 2003 05:30 PMThat should have been; under udays pic: "bubba does more spamming than all of the rest of them!" Posted by: devils chewtoy at May 30, 2003 05:31 PMor maybe under SH's pic: "qusay says that baghdad bubba does more spamming than all of the rest of them". Posted by: devils chewtoy at May 30, 2003 05:33 PMor Posted by: devils chewtoy at May 30, 2003 05:35 PMmaybe... Posted by: devils chewtoy at May 30, 2003 05:35 PMme? Posted by: devils chewtoy at May 30, 2003 05:36 PM"This is the same cheesy grin I used in those pornos I made. Notice the porn mustache. Babe, I so got it goin' on!" Posted by: Da Goddess at May 30, 2003 05:37 PMLOL at all of this. Also, don't forget the snaps of Osama and Dear Leader on GWOT and North Korea, respectfully ... Posted by: Alan at May 30, 2003 05:43 PMLil' Kim gets: Command Post Contributors are merciless! Osama gets: The Command Post is my favorite virtual cave! Posted by: Dave Dube at May 30, 2003 06:04 PM""This is the same cheesy grin I used in those pornos I made. Notice the porn mustache. Babe, I so got it goin' on!" Posted by Da Goddess at May 30, 2003 05:37 PM
"You are not reading this!" Posted by: Jim Treacher at May 30, 2003 07:13 PM"you're not mad at me are you?" Posted by: Chiguy at May 30, 2003 11:20 PMCan't say -- I switched to reading the 'print' versions when you went to this new format. That's still not as easy to deal with as the old format but it got rid of a lot of the excess clutter. Under the Baghdad Bob Photo: The command post bloggers are committing suicide at their keyboards, and Elvis will be headlining our victory concert. Posted by: PoodyTang at June 1, 2003 02:09 AMEverything IS quiet today. Reports of cameraderie at the 8 Summit, a beautiful day here in S.F. and in her column today, lo and behold, Maureen Dowd, Hanoi Jane of the NY Times, actually gave Dubya a day off. Posted by: Seth at June 1, 2003 04:04 PMUnder Sadam: "My new identity is........'Dondanpassthegashustonturnip'. Posted by: Jeff B at June 3, 2003 09:12 PMPost a comment
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