Saddam Hussein visited by wife...
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Bonfirelight
Crocodile
From the site that brings you
"Russians conquered Mars 30 years ago"
"Alien visits Russian province"
and
"Jesus Christ born in Ukraine"
c'mon Jazzz
"Russians conquered Mars 30 years ago"
"Alien visits Russian province"
and
"Jesus Christ born in Ukraine"
c'mon Jazzz
Could it be that the wife was something of a harridan causing Saddam to palm her off early on so that it was the double that she'd spent all those years living with and that the real Saddam, now a prisoner of the Coalition, is, in reality, a total stranger to her. What do think, Dr.Jazzz?
Bonfirelight said:From the site that brings you
"Russians conquered Mars 30 years ago"
"Alien visits Russian province"
and
"Jesus Christ born in Ukraine"
c'mon Jazzz
...what the fuck are you on about?
Admittedly Pravda did run some unusual stories before the Iraq war such as 'evidence of WMD a sham', 'Colin Powell talks bollocks before the UN' (I forget the exact headlines).
DrJazzz said:
Like you I find my little scenario totally unbelievable and, indeed, crap.
It's your postings which create the differences in our thinking.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
i'm sure i said at the time how would they know if they had a double or not and was laughed at... 
Barking_Mad
Non sibi sed omnibus
Its on Pravda's web site.........highly unreliable.
El Jugador
will leave bed for food
- hiding in a cave in Afganistan/Pakistan apparently!trylo said:Where is the bin button?
(dudumtish!)
Barking_Mad said:
Unreliable because Pravda hasn't been fitting in with the scheme of lies and censorship perpetrated by our Mickey Mouse media, or did you not see the astonishingly accurate articles on Pravda before the start of the Iraq war? (many articles on how the evidence of WMD was bollocks, military analysts saying it would be a long campaign (everyone now forgets how the rest of the media was predicting weeks) and lead to the complete turning over of the country).
trylo I think you are looking for the 'let's stick our heads in the sand' button.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
What, and those were exclusive to Pravda, were they? Loads of papers and sources were saying precisely those things all around the world.DrJazzz said:
DrJazz, it's not really that I want to stick my head in the sand it's that if one, especially one coming from a political science background, wants to analyse politics and make meaningful conclusions one has to disregard conspiracy theories because they make analysis possible.
To use a poor analogy, my attitude towards conspiracy theories which obviously interest you very much is a bit like the cosmologist towards religion. I'm not going to say it's impossible that your theories are true, but if you factor them into the equation than just about anything could be true and then you can't come to any fact-based conclusions, it's just a mishmash of hearsay and faith.
Conspiracy theories and bogeyman stories could be true, but I can't make a living off of doing conspiracy analysis for a think tank, private company or government agency can I?
To use a poor analogy, my attitude towards conspiracy theories which obviously interest you very much is a bit like the cosmologist towards religion. I'm not going to say it's impossible that your theories are true, but if you factor them into the equation than just about anything could be true and then you can't come to any fact-based conclusions, it's just a mishmash of hearsay and faith.
Conspiracy theories and bogeyman stories could be true, but I can't make a living off of doing conspiracy analysis for a think tank, private company or government agency can I?
Thumper Browne
Big Wheel Up
I'll laugh my tits off if this turns out to be true, I'll also eat my hat. What a fun filled day that will be. 
Bonfirelight
Crocodile
DrJazzz said:
this
and this
and this
are what the fuck im talking about.
Just seems like the sort of stories rolled out by those dollar rags you get in the states..
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Sabah el khir, Dr.J
Assuming this was the real Mrs.Hussein, there seem to have been more looky-likeys in Iraq than a Stars in Their Eyes Christmas special - then wouldn't you expect her to deny it was the old monster himself in the hope of getting him released as a mere looky-likey. It can get very confusing with all this bluff and counter bluff.*
Bisalama
Assuming this was the real Mrs.Hussein, there seem to have been more looky-likeys in Iraq than a Stars in Their Eyes Christmas special - then wouldn't you expect her to deny it was the old monster himself in the hope of getting him released as a mere looky-likey. It can get very confusing with all this bluff and counter bluff.*
Bisalama
Fair enough BonfireLight, I apologise for being rude.
However if you read "Jesus Christ born in Ukraine" and "Mars conquered thirty years ago" they turn out to be stories containing nothing remarkable. I'll accept there may be the odd fanciful article but the bulk of Pravda is serious news, and indeed www.iraqwar.ru was the best commentary on the Iraq war by any mainstream media.
However if you read "Jesus Christ born in Ukraine" and "Mars conquered thirty years ago" they turn out to be stories containing nothing remarkable. I'll accept there may be the odd fanciful article but the bulk of Pravda is serious news, and indeed www.iraqwar.ru was the best commentary on the Iraq war by any mainstream media.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Just out of interest, can someone explain why we're supposed to believe (a) that the Saddam in custody is not the real one (b) that the US govt is scared of releasing him for trial because of what he might say about US-Iraq weapons links in the 80s, among other things.
That is, why would the US govt capture a fake Saddam only to be scared of what he might say?
That is, why would the US govt capture a fake Saddam only to be scared of what he might say?
El Jugador
will leave bed for food
A fake Saddam would presumably be unlikely to reveal anything that the US govt would regret - which would probably make him an ideal defendant in any forthcoming trial, and any supposed 'fear' of what he might reveal could merely be window-dressing ...but maybe not!Dirty Martini said:
I understand that Saddam had many doubles (didn't he also have many wives?), but I doubt if the doubles would have further wives of their own - though they could, couldn't they? It certainly would make the doubles more convincing if they each married wives who could then swear blind that they'd married the real Saddam.
That's the thing about intregue - with bluff and doublebluff and doubledoublebluff etc etc - one thing alone is for sure: truth is often stranger than fiction!
ill-informed
passive aggressive master
Well of course this was something that crossed a lot of peoples minds when he was captured. So it may be true.
On a seperate issue, has garfield been banned? I just saw it on this thread and was a wee bit suprised.
On a seperate issue, has garfield been banned? I just saw it on this thread and was a wee bit suprised.
El Jugador
will leave bed for food
I think he's just set it as his 'location' - but you never can tell with this pesky interwebnet thing..!
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
No, he's not been banned. If he was banned it would read "Banned" with a capital "B".
El Jugador
will leave bed for food
...unless that's what he wants you to think?FridgeMagnet said:
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
"This man shags like al hamache, the 'Camel Driver': he is not my husband!"
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