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Whatever happened to Baghdad Bob and other tales…

Now that the Iraq war is fully over and all the troops have come home, except for the a few “advisers” according to our victorious President Obama, it’s time to ask whatever happened to the only funny thing to come from the whole sorry mess, and that is none other than the much beloved Baghdad Bob, aka Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf?

Presidents have always had their helpful spokesperson helpers. Pictured above find:

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lord Haw Haw of the German helper service, and Tokyo Rose of the Japan branch.

• President George Bush and his Iraqi spokesperson, Baghdad Bob

• President Barack Obama and his spokesman, Baghdad Bob Gibbs

Advice from Baghdad Bob that rings through to today:
“Don’t repeat the lies of the liars.”

It’s hard to believe, but some people walking around now may not have been alive to hear the nightly shortwave frolics of fancy by Lord Haw Haw, much less Baghdad Bob during the Gulf War II.

Baghdad Bob was the much beloved Iraqi Information Minister for the late strongman Saddam Hussein, and provided much needed comic relief as the shooting war wound down. Anyone who was keeping up with the war has fond memories of Baghdad Bob, though time may have made his actual poetic utterances a bit fuzzy.

It is to this end that we present Baghdad Bob’s most cherished sayings. While it is true that what we have here is no more than the results of scanning the internet, it’s something you may not have considered doing for yourself. But, it is a time of remembrance.

Baghdad Bob’s sayings below were gleaned principally from an excellent and patriotic website called Tankmastergunner.com. Again, while the quotes are freely available across the internet, the webmaster of Tankmastergunner took the time to compile them. Our thanks.

The video presentation is from YouTube, of course, which at the time we embedded it had shown this classic more than 308,000 times. Much like Angies List Reviews.

For some it will be nostalgia. For others, not acquainted with Baghdad Bob’s hijnks, it will be pure poetry in motion.

And still for others who don’t know who President Roosevelt is, or his helpful minions, Lord Haw Haw and Tokyo Rose, my only suggestion is to forget college and pick up a good old history book every once in awhile.

The trail of Baghdad Bob ran cold a few years ago. It is said he may be living or toes up in Qatar these days.

The War News According To Baghdad Bob

“The information was correct, but the interpretation was not,”

“The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history’s ready, then we can talk about it,”

“The military part of our information network – which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information – was the first part of the network to fall apart,”

“It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information.”

“It was unworthy of our military sources that they were the first to weaken.”

“a difficult situation, not for one individual, but for everybody”
about the war….

“Everyone could face something that hurts him. But I don’t expect that I will be hurt,”

“We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp”

“With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces’ positions remained in place.”

“These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers.”

“We counted 19 missiles that landed in a small area of Baghdad.”
(Coalition forces claimed that over 300 missiles and bombs hit Baghdad that night)

“I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly”

“These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature, because they are not decent. They are criminals.”

“Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.”

“God willing, we will throw them into the sea.”

“We will get them stuck in the mud and we will certainly defeat them.”
- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf,
Al-Jazeera TV 22 March

“A small number of peasants – brave peasants – shot down two Apaches”

“During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters”

“…..they had burnt and destroyed around 30 vehicles, including tanks and APC’s and damaged three enemy helicopters. God bless the fighters of the Arab Socialist Ba’th Party.”

“No one received them [the coalition forces] with roses.
They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets.”

“Up till now, they are only on dock No. 10, not in Umm Qasr, not in the city,”

“They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation,”

“It’s a small town, it has only a few docks … now they are in a trap.”

“Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.”

“Americans are now in disarray”

“They try to engage the world as much as they can and we will continue until they leave our land.”

“They are again in the dirt in the desert”

“They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be”
“Their objective is to get to the outskirts of Baghdad. So be it”
“We will see how the issue will turn out when they come to Baghdad.”

“Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.”

“How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.”

“This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege.”

“The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.”

“Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places.”

“One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.”

“The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.”

“…over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.”

“We want to tell him [Blair] that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.”

“Let’s go and do jihad”
“Whoever dies will be rewarded by heaven.”

“Hit them. Fight them. They are cursed; they are evil”
“We will be victorious, and they will be defeated.

“The Iraqi troops and the Iraqi fighters are in control of all the places, as we have witnessed,
No big change in that. We are fighting against them.”

“They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing,”

“Fight them everywhere. Don’t give them a chance to breathe until they withdraw and retreat.”

“They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion,”

“What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places.”

“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,”

“I am not talking about the American people and the British people, 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.”

“I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place”

“They’ve not been able to control any Iraqi city. We’re waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.”

“They are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender.”

“Make the land of Islam a burning fire that burns their faces and feet wherever they pass”

“We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their miserable armies in every Muslim spot.”

“The criminals will be humiliated… To hurt the enemy more, raise the level of your attacks.”

“Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport,”

“Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they’re outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries?”

“The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed.”

“We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed”

“Their casualties and bodies are many. Their equipment and vehicles, several were destroyed,”

“They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport.”

“God willing we’ll slaughter them all”

“The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad… Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes.”

“One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs.”

“We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison.”

“There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.”

“As our leader Saddam Hussein said, “God is grilling their stomachs in hell.”

“The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget,”

“These mercenaries, I swear by God, those who are still in Washington, they have sent their troops to be burned.”

“The Americans, they always depend on a method what I call … stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies.”

“Don’t repeat the lies of the liars.”
(Split screen; American tanks occupying the Baghdad parade ground, he stood calmly a couple of hundred yards away, on the roof of the Palestine Hotel, to tell reporters that none of this was really happening.)

Miscellaneous funny quotes by the Iraqi Information Minister

“We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.”

“My feelings – as usual – we will slaughter them all.”

“Our initial assessment is that they will all die.”

“These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.”

“We will slaughter them; Bush Junior, and his international gang of bastards!”

“The insane little dwarf, Bush.”

“The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfeld deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.”

“Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can’t understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.”
(American Libs loved that one.)

“Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio.”

“There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!”

“I blame Al-Jazeera. They are marketing for the Americans.”

“The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!”

“Let the American infidels bask in their illusion.”

“They are most welcome. We will butcher them.”

“Saddam Hussein’s soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.”

“Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.”

“I speak better English than this villain, Bush.”

“Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.”

“They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.”

“They think we are retarded. They are retarded.”

“Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.”

“Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.”
(War Ends)

Where are you Baghdad Bob? We miss you! Please phone home!

President Obama Photo Contest

This sort of photographic malfeasance is beneath the dignity of the MOST Conservative Website in America However, we found the image below while doing our diligent research into important matters of state. We do not know who actually crafted the grisly visage.

However, one must admit, if one is entirely truthful, that the photo lends itself to clever balloon titles. The photo is entitled, “ShutUpBarack.”

It is a sad fact of public life that when one is photographed as often as these two celebs, the planets must align in perfect synchronicity every once in awhile.  When that happens, the results are always better than ham handed Photoshop manipulations, like fake boogers hanging from the nose, etc.

ShutupBarack caught our eye… Originally Barack says tearfully, ” Michelle, I can’t take this. I can’t keep pretending I know what I’m doing!”

Michelle fires back, “You shut the he** up Barack! You are NOT going to ruin this for me!”

Well, we modified the caption boxes, as you see. We took out the text, leaving them pristine clean so that you can write in your own material.  You can use Photoshop, or even print out the photo so you can get to work with your pencil or crayon. It’s fun, and you learn a lot! It’s the first step to becoming a graphic artist or a comedy writer. Show off your personal design work to your workmates and boss or teacher.

Submit your best effort somewhere, and you most likely will win a prize!

Regarding our recent “If I Were Obama” contest…  We probably won’t do another contest any time soon because of our bad experience with this one. We just received this snitty mail from the grand prize winner Harold Lauder of Ogunquit Maine…

Dear ATP,

I am in receipt of your grand prize… A brand new Hybrid car. The pamflet that came with it says that its top speed is 47 miles per hour, but it has not moved from my driveway. You sent me the car alright – but you didn’t send the electric cord. I checked and a 40 mile long extension cord to make this dang car run is $39,999.00. I ain’t got that kind of money. I want my money back!
Yours Sincerely,
Harold Lauder

We replied…

Dear Mr. Lauder,

Your brand new car was a GIFT! You did not pay any money to us for us to send you. We suggest you consult with the nearest Hybrid car dealer for assistance.

Frankly, we don’t have time for this foolishness, so we’re officially out of the free prize business! We’ll just stick to most conservative business.

AlabamaTeaParty.org reader, Jackie, sent this along as a comment to an earlier article, but it is so well written that it rises to full article status.

For some reason, I had not heard about President Obama’s dog getting its own private jet. Here is the link to the originating July 17th article in the Morning Sentinel….

Jackie reminds us that while some suffer, mostly in quiet desperation, others yuck it up, having all the fun, in a very public way. Our president leads by example, again.

Obama doesn’t need to be Muslim, Christian or anything else because he believes he is the only deity worth worshiping. In true delusional, narcissistic form he trusts only in his own omnipotent powers.

The sad thing is I am not being sarcastic; it is an honest trait of this particular personality disorder. Truly terrifying because this type of person believes any means justify the end. Everyone who interferes in the process is expendable.

To prove just how out of touch he is with the people in this devastating economy, on a recent vacation(just before Michelle’s trip to Spain) the family flew to a small town in Maine for some time “away.” The town was so small it did not have an airport large enough for Air Force One, so they had to use a smaller jet.

The interesting thing though is that they chartered a PRIVATE JET FOR THEIR DOG! The 1st dog flew in on a private jet with his handlers, for which the airport had to be closed to accommodate his arrival!

The first family followed a short time later. They then proceeded through town with a 16 CAR MOTORCADE to an ice cream shop, followed by other junk food stops.

We are all supposed to vacation in our own backyards, starve, ride bicycles to work, while he is flying his dog around on a private jet. My guess is that the dog isn’t even allowed into the living area of the White House. They just had to get a dog because it would make him appear more like an acceptable American.

Apparently they never needed a dog before becoming President. I know may people who have lost their homes and are living in campers (some even in tents), have lost every thing and wonder how the president and wife justify taking 40 of their “closest friends” to one of the most expensive resorts in the world.

He has been on vacation since he was elected; living the life of the Rich and Famous without a care in the world about what Real People are going through.

I watched all of Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally this past Saturday morning with the intensity and pleasure of a pious church goer at his favorite church.

I was raised in church and have spent the better part of my life in same, but I’m not what you would call pious. However, Glenn Beck’s multi-denominational rally struck just the right chord. It struck a chord that I have not experienced in a long time. It was truly a blessing. If you were fortunate enough to be able to watch it on CSPANN or on Facebook, you know what I mean.

After, the usual suspects in the news media began their usual hatchet jobs. Some of the articles that were available on Saturday, post the rally, looked as if they were written before the rally. Indeed, they could have been.

Saturday afternoon, just after the 300-500,000 person rally ended, CBS News reported that exactly 87,000 people attended the Restoring Honor rally, which was less than the 100,000 that Beck had predicted. Too bad, Glenn.

Saturday night, Grrraldo rounded up the Rev. Al Sharpton, a Baptist Minister. (Where is Reverend  Sharpton’s church? Can someone tell me?)  Reverend Sharpton flopped around like a beached carp on the matter of the rally. You’ve seen his interviews.

Sunday, President Obama said he had not watched any of the Restoring Honor rally. He characterized the attendees as folks who are dissatisfied with the way things are going, and said that they are “easily led.” He dismissed them saying that you find them in any time of distress.  No big deal.

The Shine Is Off Our Imams

I expected the usual left wing media culprits to dismiss Beck and the Restoring Honor rally. More, I expected (but fervently hoped I would be proven wrong) the usual suspects on our side to do the same.

I’m disappointed beyond measure at the response of our own leaders, those people being Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin.

I listened to the first hour of Levin and he did not mention the Restoring Honor rally. If later, he did, I”ll be more than happy to retract or revise.

Rush Limbaugh could not be contacted for his reaction, because he’s off on another golf frolic, this time for a week and a half. He also mentioned Thursday’s show that he’d be taking off in November for another. November? Tell me that I heard that wrong. Please.

Best of all, Sean Hannity said Monday to a caller that he hadn’t had time to listen to much of the rally Saturday because he was busy. That’s fair enough, because he had just come off his own tour.

But let’s be candid. It’s quite in line for the “mainstream media” to behave the way they did about the rally. We lament their behavior bitterly. But what about our own leaders?

Rush spends more and more time wheel’s up lately, so I wonder where his head really is at times. Levin gives the appearance that he hates Beck. Hannity shys away from anything Beck much as you or I would a poisonous snake.

I’m not calling for a love fest. I’m not even calling for these very competitive leaders to cooperate. But I am calling for common courtesy. When Levin and Hannity IGNORE something as massive as the Restoring Honor rally, they are also ignoring their own base. They, in effect say that we don’t matter.

When you ask our leaders, “What about that Restoring Honor rally?” and they respond, “What rally?” it’s time for an adjustment.

If the peril the nation faces isn’t enough to foster at least a courteous common cause among the people we look to for news and guidance, then their council must be tempered with the knowledge that they have agendas above what is apparent.

Frankly, I expect better, and more from these men. For example, Rush is in no position to make judgments about Obama’s multitudinous vacations. Rush has diminished himself, at least in my eyes, on this topic.  (Rush would have a belly laugh over what *I* think.) Likewise, I must filter whatever Hannity says through a petty filter.  And Levin… Levin most of all disappoints, because side by side, there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between his views and those of Beck.

So, please don’t think that is just me. Liberals the nation over take comfort when our leaders dis each other…and in the case of the Restoring Honor rally, the half million who attended and the untold others who watched on CSPANN and Facebook.

What in God’s name are these men thinking? Now is the time for unity. A nation of conservatives are in harmony. Is it not right to ask at least a portion from the men we turn to for advice and leadership in this, the most important political times in the last 150 years? I can’t take a man seriously who doesn’t return the favor.

A majority of the American people have been concerned about President Obama’s restful vacation schedule, a veritable disconnect between he and thee as the country withers under Obama’s long, hot, recovery summer.

As it turns out, insufferably long vacations are just another dormant progressive tradition brought back to full vigor. Below, find an article from what was then known as the Perrysburg Journal, circa July 1907.

America lost its journalistic innocence for good and all in the last couple of years. Even so, we have the tendency to believe that at some point back in time, news givers were honest and neutral in their reporting.

As a student of history, I realize that different time periods have different customs. I have always made allowances. Longer vacations, for example, were more common back then, for people who had the time, means, and circumstances for them.

However, lately, I have come to the conclusion that some things are universal. FOUR months vacation for the chief executive of the United States…and he’s not taking calls? And the news media gushes bully good cheer?

Read this “neutral” piece from 1907 on the subject of presidential vacations. (The author is not stated) Liken it to what you’re hearing these days, if you are one of the diminishing breed that monitors the mainstream media.

I believe the article is exactly 180 degrees out from what it should have been. I believe I would have entitled the piece, “President Takes Some Time From Busy Vacation Schedule To Do A Little Of The Nation’s Business Occasionally.”

I have always been a TR supporter, I built the graphic below, respectfully, of bits and pieces from the time.

Like you, I loved his Big Stick theory and his attitude to conservation and hunting. However, lately, as we learn of his progressive ways, he seems, now, tarnished. The article included does not improve on the growing stain.

The people who were alive in 1907, though without Rush, Glenn, Sean, and Fox News, were not stupid. Make of the article what you will.

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The President’s Vacation
Roosevelt Always in Touch with Affairs of the Nation

DEVOTES PART OF EVERY DAY TO PUBLIC AFFAIRS
OYSTER BAY July 1907.

Although President Roosevelt is settled down at Oyster Bay for a four months’ vacation he will not be able to escape from a good deal of the labors and duties of his job. The public business at Washington goes on just the same.

There are officials to appoint, questions of policy to decide, commissions in the army and navy to sign, many other things that no one but the president can attend to, and which President Roosevelt would let no other man attend to even if he had the power.

While he spends the summer In his modest and comfortable country house at Sagamore Hill he is obliged to devote a few hours a day often more than a few to the nation’s business.

When the president went down to Oyster Bay recently he was accompanied by Secretary Loeb, Assistant Secretary Latta, and four clerks from the executive staff at Washington.

They began work next day in the executive offices In the village of Oyster Bay, three miles from the president’s house. These offices are connected by direct wire with the executive offices adjoining the White House at Washington. The clerks at the capital are therefore in as close touch with their immediate chief, Mr. Loeb, as if he were in his own office there.

Mr. Loeb, in turn, is in constant touch with the president. The whole arrangement works out in the same manner as if the capital and all the departments had been moved from Washington to Oyster Bay.

One difference is that the president never visits the executive offices in Oyster Bay. Whatever business requires to be brought to his attention is taken up by Secretary Loeb to Sagamore Hill. Mr. Loeb goes to the president in the forenoon about 11 o’clock, after he has gone through the mall and sorted out from it the letters and official papers which need to pass under the executive eye or hand. Some days Mr. Loeb gets back to the village in time to put in an hour’s work before luncheon. More often his luncheon has to wait an hour for him.

The executive offices at “the summer capital,” as Oyster Bay folk take pride in calling their village, never fail to Impress visitors by their unpretentiousness. They consist of seven office rooms and a storeroom, into which a loft above a corner grocery has been divided. Mr. Moore, the enterprising purveyor of pure food to the villagers and surrounding gentry, is a famous man every summer. The whole country hears each summer in the press dispatches of “the executive offices over Moore’s grocery.”

Mr. Moore’s pride would be greater if the president should come down some day and transact some important piece of business there. It would be a fluke 87.

The cabinet is rarely called together in the president’s vacation, and then only to consider matters regarded as of the highest importance.

Nevertheless, in the course of a summer most of the members of the cabinet pay a visit, either of business or friendship to Sagamore Hill. They often dine and sleep there. Some of the president’s closest friends in the senate, members of the “tennis” cabinet, or literary cronies, are overnight guests. But most of Mr. Roosevelt’s visitors who call by appointment are asked to arrive in the forenoon and to stay for luncheon.

It is the impression at Oyster Bay that there will be many such visits by the closest political friends of the administration from next week on. The master of Sagamore Hill Is watching with the closest scrutiny the development of the campaign for the nomination of his successor, and it is likely that he will have frequent consultations with the leading statesmen who are devoted to him and his policies.