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Rumsfeld Is Ace of Spades in French Deck of Cards
2003-09-25
Ze Phronch, zay are ze fonny race....
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the Ace of Spades and al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden a Joker in a provocative pack of French playing cards depicting "the 52 most dangerous American officials."
Read on. It gets better.
A riposte to the "most-wanted" cards of Iraqi leaders issued to U.S. soldiers, the deck is the latest commercial offering by a radical thinktank whose conspiracy theory account of the September 11 attacks stormed French bestseller charts last year. "We’ve already sold some 2,500 decks. That’s not bad considering we couldn’t find anyone who was willing to print them at first," said Thierry Meyssan, president of the Paris-based Reseau Voltaire group.
I think "Reseau Voltaire" translates as "Whack Job" in English .
"We were shocked by the indecency of the cards distributed by the U.S. military. It was as if arresting people was some kind of game," Meyssan told Reuters on Thursday. Two hundred packs of the original Pentagon devised U.S. cards were sent to U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The American public has since snapped up hundreds of thousands of the decks, which portray Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as the Ace of Spades. The French cards bestow that honor not on President Bush but Rumsfeld. Under his mugshot, he is accused of using the September 11 attacks "to increase military budgets and plan an army in space that could completely dominate Earth."
The plan continues... "Get me the Space Army on the hot line!"
As King of Diamonds -- the suit chosen to represent economic power in the U.S. administration -- Bush is described merely as "head of a baseball club... designated president of the United States by friends of his father at the Supreme Court."
In the 2000 election, the Court stopped a potentially decisive recount in Florida, a move that handed the presidency to Bush.
Thanks, Dad! Wish my father had friends on the Supreme Court so they could pick me to be president, too.
Osama bin Laden, whose al Qaeda network Washington blames for the September 11 attacks on U.S. landmarks, is a Joker described as "a CIA agent charged...with provoking a clash between the ’Arab-Muslim’ and ’Judaeo-Christian’ worlds."
This is probably a picture of The Evil Karl Rove dressed up for the White House Halloween party.
Meyssan won notoriety for his book "L’Effroyable Imposture" ("The Appalling Fraud"), which suggested U.S. military insiders were probably behind the September 11 attacks.
I thought it was the great Mossad- Skull and Bones- Halliburton- CIA- Walt Disney conspiracy? Wish these people would get their stories straight.
Posted by:tu3031

#15  This is gonna end up being like that STERN cover showing Bush as Rambo, Condi as Xena, ect.: something that the Euros think is a great insult, but that most Americans think is funny and cool, in a kitschy kinda way... I'm a huge Bush supporter ( I could say that I was a big fan of Bush, but people might get confused, hehe...) and I'd LOVE one of these.
Posted by: Dave Paglia   2003-9-25 11:08:08 PM  

#14  Old Patriot, don't forget Jonny Depp and Woody Allen. Count their enablers and slide in liely suspects that reside in Quebec.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-9-25 10:40:43 PM  

#13  This will be tough to counter - there aren't 52 Phrench worthy of note... and those that are, well, they're all Jokers.
I have heard, .com, that the only way you can get a deck of these cards is to redeem ten French wine snap-caps for them.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-9-25 9:20:04 PM  

#12  US military involvement?

I think Gen Shelton put the lie to that one yesterday.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-9-25 6:45:19 PM  

#11  Meyssan won notoriety for his book "L’Effroyable Imposture" ("The Appalling Fraud"), which suggested U.S. military insiders were probably behind the September 11 attacks.
Didn't the GIA plan to fly a plane into the Eiffel Tower in the mid 90s? Were France's spooks behind this attempt?
Posted by: Dave   2003-9-25 5:18:26 PM  

#10  RC? LOL ;-0
Posted by: Frank G   2003-9-25 4:28:31 PM  

#9  I have been told that before Reseau Voltaire, Thierry Meyssan had become rich in the porn industry.

Fluffer or jizz-mopper?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2003-9-25 4:18:22 PM  

#8  For the note Meyssan is the head of Reseau Voltaire: a strongly anti--religion
organization who organized a demonstration against the coming of the Pope to Paris. Eighty
persons showed up to that demonstration. Despite
the laughable numbers one of them got interviewed
in the radio.


I have been told that before Reseau Voltaire, Thierry Meyssan had become rich in the porn industry.

Posted by: JFM   2003-9-25 2:55:16 PM  

#7  Good, now we have a deck of cards to solidify the complete insanity of the French.
Posted by: g wiz   2003-9-25 2:11:54 PM  

#6  www.fuckfrance.com
Posted by: Greg   2003-9-25 2:09:28 PM  

#5  Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the Ace of Spades and al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden a Joker in a provocative pack of French playing cards depicting "the 52 most dangerous American officials."

So the French are parroting an American idea. Behind the ball, as always.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-9-25 2:04:11 PM  

#4  We need to investigate Jerry Lewis. He's at the root of this whole anti-American thing that's rolling through France. They finally realized that the Nutty Professor sucks and now they're holding it against us.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-9-25 1:31:36 PM  

#3  This will be tough to counter - there aren't 52 Phrench worthy of note... and those that are, well, they're all Jokers.

ROTFLMAO!

ChIrak is downright pernicious, though.
Posted by: Katz   2003-9-25 1:04:57 PM  

#2  "L'effroyable imposture" sold 250 000 ex., which is very good for a book around here. The reseau voltaire is a left-leaning ngo specializing in fascism watch and threats to secularism, which used to be very positive in my eyes.
Meyssan is also known for his pro-gay rights stance, for his insider critiscism of free masonry (he was the main "unnamed" source for a contreversial book about Fm & corruption) and his denonciation of the militia-type order service of the Front national (his work was used for a parlementary inquiry), so he used to have credibility. According to a book countering his thesis (which sold about 20 000 ex....), "The appalling lie", he has alleged ties with the larouchians. Methink he is linked to french intelligence, and used as an useful idiot for propaganda value. Yup, that's a conspiracy theory.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-9-25 12:34:52 PM  

#1  This will be tough to counter - there aren't 52 Phrench worthy of note... and those that are, well, they're all Jokers.
Posted by: .com   2003-9-25 12:22:05 PM  

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