The Losers Are Made Out To Be Buffoons and the Buffoons Are Made Out To Be Heroes

Belvedere Jehosophat - Wednesday, 25 June 2003 - 15:10:16 - print it raw

It seems that the former Iraqi information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, was yesterday arrested at a suburban roadblock in Baghdad. He had been hiding out at the house of some relatives and watching satellite TV.

al-Sahhaf had been dubbed Comical Ali for his optimistic proclamations that the US was losing the war - proclamations that were made even as US troops were entering Baghdad.

Apparently, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, who, whilst certainly hunted, wasn't featured on the deck of cards of Iraq's most wanted. One can only assume that a) his crimes weren't all that serious, or b) the US ran out of playing cards.

If it was the latter then let's hope that the justice done isn't the same as what was dished out during the fiasco that was the Nuremberg Trials.

However, if it was the former, then, quite frankly, the time spent watching satellite TV should be penance enough.

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