Posted on 10/07/2015 10:24:30 AM PDT by PROCON
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, better known as “Baghdad Bob,” was the unintentionally hilarious Iraqi information minister who, no matter what evidence to the contrary, emphatically predicted evisceration of U.S. forces during the Iraq war and denied any news suggesting otherwise. As NBC News recalled, “His last public appearance as information minister was on April 8, 2003, the day before the fall of Baghdad, when he said that the Americans ‘are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender.’ ”
Baghdad Bob now seems to be the model for the Obama White House. Ramadi falls to the Islamic State? No bother, we are winning! Russia invades Ukraine? Russian President Vladimir Putin — take this! — is on the “wrong side of history,” is only going to “wreck his country’s economy and continue Russia’s isolation,” was “desperate” to talk to Obama (and the next day commenced bombing U.S.-backed rebels in Syria) and is about to get “stuck in a quagmire” in Syria. Russia moves more forces into Syria, changing the dynamic in the Middle East? President Obama brushes it aside. Putin is acting out of “weakness,” you see. Next thing you know, the Russians will have to “surrender or be burned in their tanks.”
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Apologies to Baghdad Bob though.
I concur.
Yeah. I liked ol’ Baghdad Bob. He was a hoot! Obama; not so
much of a hoot. - Where is Baghdad these days?
The last time a black man was beaten this badly, Apollo Creed died.
On November 7, 2014, Swedish newspaper Expressen posted a video of a terminally ill Al-Sahhaf in a hospital bed in the United Arab Emirates.
No news for nearly a year. Pity none of the U.S. news organizations picked him up. Probably too reliable for them.
I heard he's working at the Hillary! campaign.
And even if he has died, he’s still an eligible democratic voter.
The truth is Putin is kicking our ass all up-and-down the field
They’re setting up a mini Crimea over there
He's still around, but, I think he changed his name to Josh Earnest or something.
Bob was hilarious. Øbongo not so much.
Baghdad Bob at least had the excuse he knew Saddam would have him fed feet 1st into a paper shredder if he did not do his job. There is no such excuse for the propagandists of the DC Political/Media/Business machine
Perhaps Larry Sinclair was right....Barry has a small unit.
Muslim dictators need such information control.
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