What if Baghdad Bob Was Right All along?

Remember Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf? He was the former Iraqi information minister who became a folk hero in the West because of his unintentionally hilarious daily briefings even as coalition forces tightened the noose around the regime's neck.

Nicknamed "Baghdad Bob" by a credulous American press corps all too willing to parrot Bush administration propaganda, the Iraqi bureaucrat had a talent for lurid prose that hinted at a poetic sensibility beneath the nonsense.

Among my favorites were: "God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of the Iraqis"; "The midget Bush and Rumsfeld deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom-loving people everywhere"; "Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire"; and "I speak better English than this villain Bush."

Baghdad Bob made his final prophetic utterance on April 7, 2003, before disappearing into the obscurity of occupied Iraq: "This invasion will end in failure."

Three years into a war that has gone worse than expected for America and its coalition allies, it would be hard to find anyone in Washington -- with the notable exception of Mr. Bush -- who doesn't agree with him now.

It wasn't the first time old Baghdad Bob said something prescient. Even buffoons are capable of connecting the dots in ways that would put our current president to shame.

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"The shock has backfired on them," Baghdad Bob said in one of his rants shortly after the war began. "They are shocked because of what they have seen. No one received them with roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets. Now the game has been exposed."

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Seriously, could he be any worse than what we have now?

His poor country and his poor people.

But he called bush** right. A villain. I wonder if he looked into his eyes and saw his soul.

delighted when he got him. Baghdad Bob has suffered enough under *. I say free him.

Apologize to the Iraqi people and release all those being held since * invaded their country.

well that one was not exactly taking a big risk. He certainly got that right.

But more to the point: we got it right. Screw that idiot Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, he was just a vintage 1950 propaganda minister for that hideous regime. We on the "shrill squawking extreme left", as one of our nice fellow DUers put it, predicted exactly how this was all going to play out. We got it right long before the first bombing run began. We told you so.

Baghdad Bob was 100% correct but so was I. It wasn't hard to work this one out if you have a clue about M E history.

They should have listened to BB

I also listened to Mike Malloy's March, 2003 "shock and awe" episode the other night. Callers predicting that we'd eventually see Sunni on Shi'a mayhem were absolutely right.

That could be a fundraiser!