U.S. Lying About Progress Troops use Pencil Bombs on children!!

CNN ^ | Apr 2 2003 | CNN

[CharacterCounts]

I am hoping beyond all hope that the next time this Iraqi Information Minister goes on tv the door suddenly opens, and an American Special Ops appears and puts a bullet right between his eyes on live camera.

[speedy]

They sure are making it easy for Saturday Night Live tonight. And can you imagine how depressed Judy Woodruff is today? What a great day this has been.

[FirstFlaBn]

This guy may have a point. After all, what do you call the replacement ink thingies? Cartridges. Now do you see his point?

[tet68]

They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places.

Cue music.
"Good, good, good, good vibrations!"

The war's effect is trivial he says.

Cue Python black Knight.
"Baah it's just a scratch."

[tet68]

Perhaps they should come and interview our children over here, we make them WRITE with the dredded pencils, oh no!

Note to Minisinfo. Some children actually use computers, but we're just training them for economic jihad, so don't worry.

[Gasshog]

Birds of a Feather

Lie together

[Gasshog]

...and if anyone has seen my French-made beret please return it at once, my scalp is chilly.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just Amazing!:

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The minister also said that coalition forces were throwing booby traps in the form of pens and pencils into Iraqi villages and townships.

"The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps," he said, adding that the British and American forces were "immoral mercenaries" and "war criminals" for such behavior.

"I am not talking about the American people and the British people," he said. "I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children."

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[Calvin Locke]

They stopped the toys and dolls because of bad publicity. Besides, they found out that children would pick up the pens just the same as a doll or toy.

[so_real]

Exactly !!!

ARTHUR: I have no quarrel with you, good Sir knight, but I must cross this bridge.
BLACK KNIGHT: Then you shall die.
ARTHUR: I command you as King of the Britons to stand aside!
BLACK KNIGHT: I move for no man.
ARTHUR: So be it!
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's left arm off after a short battle]
ARTHUR: Now stand aside, worthy adversary.
BLACK KNIGHT: 'Tis but a scratch.
ARTHUR: A scratch? Your arm's off!
BLACK KNIGHT: No, it isn't.
ARTHUR: Well, what's that then?
BLACK KNIGHT: I've had worse.
ARTHUR: You liar!
BLACK KNIGHT: Come on you pansy!
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's right arm off]
ARTHUR: Victory is mine! [kneeling] We thank thee Lord, that in thy merc-
[Black Knight kicks Arthur in the head while he is praying]
BLACK KNIGHT: Come on then.
ARTHUR: What?
BLACK KNIGHT: Have at you!
ARTHUR: You are indeed brave, Sir knight, but the fight is mine.
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, had enough, eh?
ARTHUR: Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left.
BLACK KNIGHT: Yes I have.
ARTHUR: Look!
BLACK KNIGHT: Just a flesh wound. [Headbutts Arthur in the chest]
ARTHUR: Look, stop that.
BLACK KNIGHT: Chicken! Chicken!
ARTHUR: Look, I'll have your leg. Right!
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's leg off]
BLACK KNIGHT: Right, I'll do you for that!
ARTHUR: You'll what?
BLACK KNIGHT: Come 'ere!
ARTHUR: What are you going to do, bleed on me?
BLACK KNIGHT: I'm invincible!
ARTHUR: You're a loony.
BLACK KNIGHT: The Black Knight always triumphs! Have at you! Come on then.
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's other leg off]
BLACK KNIGHT: All right; we'll call it a draw.
ARTHUR: Come, Patsy.
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, oh, I see, running away, 'eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!

[irish_lad]

Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said that U.S.-led forces have not crossed the Tigris River and are not approaching Baghdad. But they have lost significant numbers of troops and equipment, he said.

Sounds like another famous denial:

"I'm just going to say this one more time. I did not have sexual relations, with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky..."

[theFIRMbss]

>Seriously, what is with the pens. Every lie has a grain of truth to it. Did Iraq do something they are going to blame on us?

Well, my position
is that if Jordon wants to
send them to Iraq,

then somehow there must
be something Iraq can do
with them that's naughty.

UN denies Iraqi pencil ban

"The United Nations has rejected suggestions that its sanctions against Iraq include a ban on the import of pencils.

The denial came shortly after the arrival in Iraq of millions of pencils donated by Jordanians as part of a campaign against the economic embargo.

UN spokesman in Baghdad George Somerwill said pencils had been coming in plentiful quantities, and he was unaware of any ban on them.

The delivery of over three million pencils in a convoy of vehicles was organised by a non-government group in Jordan, which said it had received overwhelming popular support for the move.

It was hailed as part of a sanctions-busting campaign.

Traditional ties

Jordanians have traditionally close ties with the Iraqi people and some are impatient with Arab leaders for supporting the UN economic embargo.

On Sunday, about 100 vehicles accompanied a delegation to the Iraqi border. The two trucks carrying the pencils crossed to Baghdad later in the day. ..."

[Gasshog]

SADDAM: I'm invincible!
BUSH/BLAIR: You're a looney.

[F16Fighter]

It's craw, NOT CRAW!

[ApesForEvolution]

Man, whom to believe... /sarcasm

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Hmmm- "Cartridges" you say...
Vernacular which was, no doubt, suggested by collition forces in an attempt to implicate the enemy.

(Wait...and I'm being serious...If I've learned nothing else in the last 18 months, I have learned that in reality, anything actually *is* possible. Tis' some scary sh*t, too)

[mgobluegop23]

I wonder if they were French made Bic pens.

[dixiechick2000]

Ol' Baghdad Bob is the Mother of all Comedians!

To paraphrase Col. Hunt..."We need to fly a cruise missle through his window."

[so_real]

MSNBC has been reporting that an INCREDIBLY large cache of weapons has been found -- evidence that sanctions against Saddam haven't "quite" been working as intended. How long will it be before the "BLACK KNIGHTS" (both foreign and domestic) start claiming that we're planting evidence?

[GulfWar1Vet]

STOP! STOP!

I am dying from laughing so HARD!

LOL LOL LOL!

"The Mother of all Comedians"...Baaahhhhaaaaaaaa!!!