http://www2.wackyiraqi.com/home/ <-- one of the sites shown in our link queue, so I checked them out. Here's one of their news items, dated 4/01. It looks like they're a satirical site, so considering that, they must be really good at April Fool's jokes. Had me fooled for a minute... specifically the part in bold.
SOUTHERN IRAQ (WI) — As part of the struggle to liberate Iraq from Saddam Hussein and his dictatorial regime, coalition forces have taken on the burdensome task of removing and defacing portraits and likenesses of Saddam that stand in their way.
Earlier this week, the symbolic operation was halted when a new Pentagon intelligence report threw a sand-monkey wrench into the American public relations machine. According to that report, many of the portraits of Saddam littered throughout Iraq may actually be portraits of his numerous body doubles.
With unit morale sagging after fierce fighting, Coalition forces were disappointed further by the news that they would have to cease drawing sillier moustaches over pictures of Saddam's already silly one. It was understood by all, however, that it would be necessary to verify which pictures were actually of Saddam so that the wrong men did not get defaced.
"We humbly apologize for any emotional or psychological damage we may have done to Saddam's body doubles. This war is not against you, the innocent body doubles of Iraq. It is against the brutal dictator after whom your faces were surgically modeled," reiterated John Abizaid, Deputy Commander of U.S. Central Command.
According to Pentagon sources, those pictures and statues determined to be of Saddam's look-alikes will immediately be restored to their pseudo-narcissistic splendor.
SOUTHERN IRAQ (WI) — As part of the struggle to liberate Iraq from Saddam Hussein and his dictatorial regime, coalition forces have taken on the burdensome task of removing and defacing portraits and likenesses of Saddam that stand in their way.
Earlier this week, the symbolic operation was halted when a new Pentagon intelligence report threw a sand-monkey wrench into the American public relations machine. According to that report, many of the portraits of Saddam littered throughout Iraq may actually be portraits of his numerous body doubles.
With unit morale sagging after fierce fighting, Coalition forces were disappointed further by the news that they would have to cease drawing sillier moustaches over pictures of Saddam's already silly one. It was understood by all, however, that it would be necessary to verify which pictures were actually of Saddam so that the wrong men did not get defaced.
"We humbly apologize for any emotional or psychological damage we may have done to Saddam's body doubles. This war is not against you, the innocent body doubles of Iraq. It is against the brutal dictator after whom your faces were surgically modeled," reiterated John Abizaid, Deputy Commander of U.S. Central Command.
According to Pentagon sources, those pictures and statues determined to be of Saddam's look-alikes will immediately be restored to their pseudo-narcissistic splendor.
