"Men of the Hour"

We have just found the greatest online store to buy t-shirts, coffee mugs and take care oif your nousepad needs: The WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com Store!

I wonder just who is trying to make money off of the name of poor, over worked Muhammed Saeed
al-Sahaf ? cafépress.com have outdone themselves this time! Just look at the lovely quotes by MSS they are plastering on their ware:

» "My feelings..."
» "No American infidels..."
» "No I am not scared..."
» "God will roast their stomachs..."
» "I now inform you..."
» "The American press is all about lies..."
» Mugs

Go their quick to pick up your historic goods! And on the topic of Muhammed Saeed
al-Sahaf . . .CNN.com reports: "To help pay for the upgrades, the site will sell T-shirts, mugs and barbecue aprons featuring choice quotes from Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, who maintained with a straight face that Iraqi troops were routing the Americans even as U.S. tanks busted through Baghdad." This quote is in reference to this gem of a new website, We Love the Iraqi Information Minister. According to the CNN article:

In the United States, Conn Nugent and his friends got a kick out of the comments, too, and decided to create the Web site Tuesday.

The site, Nugent said, was meant as a private joke.

"We didn't advertise it at all," he said. "We just sent it to our friends."

Within hours, someone at the Pentagon got wind of it, and soon word spread to journalists, Nugent said. By Friday, many Web journals, called blogs, referred to the site. Internet users also circulated e-mail telling friends to check it out.

Nugent said the group's contract with its Web host called for a limit of 2,000 hits a month -- but the site was getting 4,000 per second, putting other businesses sharing that host in jeopardy. The group looked for more powerful servers and decided to shut down after crashing four. The site was back up as of Saturday.

Is this website really a joke or was it made to honor this man? As posted in the left-hand column of the sites index page:

This site is a coalition effort of bloodthirsty hawks and ineffectual doves united in admiration for Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information (currently on administrative leave).

"In an age of spin, al-Sahaf offers feeling and authenticity. His message is consistent -- unshakeable, in fact, no matter the evidence -- but he commands daily attention by his on-the-spot, invective-rich variations on the theme. His lunatic counterfactual art is more appealing than the banal awfulness of the Reliable Sources. He is a Method actor in a production that will close in a couple of days. He stands superior to truth."

-- Jean-Pierre McGarrigle

Now does this sound as if the site was made as a joke? Enquiring minds want to know! You decide. On a lighter note . . .for those still looking for Uday Saddam Hussein's Yahoo email address. . .try sifting through N!kkes Index :: Stats :: Yahoo! searches as it lists hundreds of vital links to support your researching needs, lol.

That's all folks . . .