Andrea opines that Side-Show Mohammed, Minister of Information in Iraq, is “showing all the signs of sleep-deprivation-induced dementia.”
“They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion,” al-Sahaf said. “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.
“And I think this will agitate, this will be scorned by all Shiites all over the world because those tombs are the most sacred to Shiites all over the world, and they are trying to crack the buildings by flying low over them.”
[…] 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.”
I hope Mr. Al-Sahaf survives the war. He can mellow out a bit, become Baghdad’s Emperor Information Minister Norton over the remaining years of his life. “Ah, see all the happy, healthy, well-fed children? The smiling, prosperous people? Surely Saddam loves his faithful Iraqis here in this year 2010. Would you happen to have any brandy? I’m good for it; I have Saddam’s own credit chit here.”
It’s nice to have dreams.