(2003-07-25) — The White House announced today that the U.S. does not really have the dead bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein, and the two are still on the loose somewhere in Iraq.
“We showed those fake pictures yesterday in hopes of re-establishing some credibility with the Iraqis,” said an unnamed senior White House official. “We just thought we had to do something after we lied about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. So we figured another little lie might patch things up. But then at a meeting last night, one of our top generals says, ‘Hey, what do we say when Uday and Qusay turn up alive somewhere?’ And, of course, no one had considered that before.”
In related news, a leaked White House memo warns administration staffers to stop lying about things that can be “checked out or verified or disproved.”
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U.S. Admits it Faked Hussein Brothers’ Deaths
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1 TacJammer // Jul 25, 2003 at 10:41 am
Lies! All Lies!
I knew it was too good to be true….
2 Winds of Change.NET // Jul 25, 2003 at 12:42 pm
Liberal Contest Winners: Carnival of the Obituaries
Commentary on Uday & Qusay’s death was a moral Rorshach Test of sorts. The folks above, and many more bloggers we didn’t find and acknowledge, passed.
3 On the Fritz - Observations of Modern Life // Jul 25, 2003 at 2:18 pm
U.S. Prepares More Visual Evidence for Iraqis
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday defended his decision to release photographs of the bullet-torn bodies of Saddam Hussein’s two sons, saying, “I’m glad I made it.” He said making the pictures public would help convince frighte…