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Greg Clow (userinfogregclow) wrote in adbusting,
@ 2003-04-25 01:24:00
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Current mood: amused

regime change begins at home!

Playing Card Deck Shows Way to U.S. Regime Change


In the wake of the U.S.'s "pre-emptive" destruction of Iraq, her people, and her culture, the Trade Regulation Organization is issuing a "55 most wanted" playing-card deck similar to the one that the Pentagon issued two weeks ago in Iraq.





   
 
 

 

RICHARD BRUCE "DICK" CHENEY
Vice-President
Halliburton ex-CEO




click here for more


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userinfoafrayedknot
2003-04-25 02:50 (link)
looks like another way just to make money.

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userinfogregclow
2003-04-25 07:29 (link)
I didn't notice the PayPal link the first time I visited the page. Now that I've seen it, I can understand why you might think that.

But the folks behind the WTO/GATT parody site are ®TMark, a group with a history of anti-corporate activism and culture jamming. Check out their Dow parody site, for example.

If they ARE making any profit off the sale of these cards, it'll be going to a good cause.

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userinfopadpedpladuk
2003-04-25 08:10 (link)
I'm all for anybody making money by exposing the Halliburton connection. I've ordered a deck, and you should too.

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userinfoxbluevirusx
2003-04-25 11:56 (link)
are you sure that the obnoxious iraqi most wanted deck was released by the pentagon and not just some ridiculous company.

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userinfogregclow
2003-04-25 12:11 (link)
It's been pretty well documented that the "Iraqi Most Wanted" deck was given by the Pentagon to miltary personel in Iraq, and the cards are published on the Dept of Defense website (direct link here).

I haven't seen them being sold anywhere, although I'm sure that some will pop up on eBay soon enough, if they haven't already. I'm also sure that there will be "bootleg" editions available at some point.

All that being said, I'm not really sure what any of this has to do with my original post...

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userinfokinbote
2003-04-25 22:25 (link)
It's been pretty well documented that the "Iraqi Most Wanted" deck was given by the Pentagon to miltary personel in Iraq

Actually, Stars and Stripes reported last week that fewer than 200 decks had been made, they were done in an in-house print shop, and none had been distributed to actual troops:

The troops don’t have the cards yet, either, according to Pentagon spokeswoman Megan Fox.

“The cards have been sent to CENTCOM, but they have not been distributed yet,” Fox said Tuesday, after speaking to an official in Qatar.

Meanwhile, there are fewer than 200 actual decks to be handed out, according to Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jim Brooks, a spokesman for the Defense Intelligence Agency.

“CENTCOM asked for a couple hundred [decks], and we made them in our own print shop and sent an initial shipment out before the war,” Brooks said in a Tuesday telephone interview.

But Central Command never asked for more cards beyond the original 200 sets, Brooks said.

“If they had wanted more, we were prepared to have a [commercial] contractor do it for us, but they didn’t ask,” Brooks said.


The cards were merely a propagandistic photo prop. And the press ate them up.

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