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Forget Baghdad Bob, Meet "Saad Maan" - Iraq's Military Spokesman
Saddam Hussein had Muhammad Saeed al-Shaaf, nicknamed "Baghdad Bob" or "Chemical Ali", to explain just how great things were in Iraq (as bombs were raining down around him). With the US 'demanding' the removal of Maliki, we present the Iraq's new military spokesperson, whose name we are sure will raise a few eyebrows - Saad Maan.
Meet Brigadier General Saad Maan - Iraq's interior minister spokesman.
Blast from the past...
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He looks Saad, Maan. :(
There's simply no way that The Onion can compete with this reality.
In other news: I can't get Carole King's "Jazzman" out of my head, complete with replaced lyrics.
What is beyond "bananas"? Etymology is being challenged here.
And the winner and champion of the "why the long face contest" goes to.....
John Kerr...
Whoa...Hang on a sec...Here it is ladies and gentlemen...
Straight from Iraq, living under a rock, he's not just a mad man... he's your lovable Sa'ad Maan!!!!!!
There's going to be lots of sad men who thought collaborating with western governments, banks and corporations was a good idea.
I miss Baghdad Bob.
He made Obama look honest!
Baghdad Bob grew up watching those Joe Isuzu commercials.
pods
Here we go:
Iraq crisis: Isis jihadists 'seize Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons stockpile'
That didn't take long...
That one is good. Like bombing the shit out of the place for a decade or so didn't take them out?
Any news on incubators yet? Has Hannity spoken of the "rape rooms?"
This is one gigantic CF. We topple the bad guy, then to keep the minority happy we give them arms to fight in Syria. Only they got their asses handed to them in Syria and we bailed out on them. So they took their weapons and decided that Iraq would be a better place to make war.
Blowback in real time.
pods
Fucking seriously... the USSA was in Iraq how long??? And they never bothered to extract this shit? Two fucking trillion in USD for what? To put a paper sign up saying don't go in there? Wasn't that the whole point of Iraq 2.0?
Either way it's complete BS.
And Baghdad Bob is probably driving around in Miami in his Mercedes with some hot hot hookers now no doubt!
No one knows what its like to be the Saad Maan.
No, but Jay Carney and Jen Psaki know what it's like to be fated to telling only lies.
"Saddam Hussein had Muhammad Saeed al-Shaaf, nicknamed "Baghdad Bob" or "Chemical Ali", to explain just how great things were in Iraq"
No.
"Baghdad Bob" = Muhammad Saeed al-Shaaf ..... funny looking guy willing to stand up and say anything in front of the western media.
"Chemical Ali" = Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti.....less funny looking guy willing to gas Kurdish civilians (and hanged for that in 2010).
Obama's dreams aren't as empty as his conscience seems to be.
that who song popped into my head when I saw the dudes face.
Obama makes Baghdad Bob look honest.
There, fixed it for ya....
Full retard.
Noone knows what its like to be the Saad Maan...
It's all Iraqy to me
I wonder what position his brother Baad has in the government/military ...
That said, I think his half brother Raain is in our white house ...
Regards,
Cooter
Enter Saad Maan? Somewhere Metallica must be laughing....
And you sir, won the Internets today.
I'm off to never-never land!
Exactly where he belongs.... Too bad he couldn't take the rest of the USSA government with him.
Also,if the USSA keeps provoking Russia via their pet Ukrainian attack Dog, perhaps Putin may decide to send them all to Never Never land.
This guy's look says "yeah, we took hundreds of billions from the US chumps in training and hardware, but we all had our fingers crossed behind our backs the whole time. We learned how to say Yes Sir to those crazy jarhead instructors, but now we've been found out, payback is a bitch".
And With Apologies to the Who:
No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the Saad Maan
Behind brown eyes
No one knows what it's like
To be hated
To be fated
To telling only lies
*standing ovation*
Keep 'em comin dawg.
what is funny is the double speak thta pervades North america. Mock this guy, when the official story by our leaders is blindly questioned... Sorry, but I would expect SAAD MAN's version is closer than John Kerry's
..."and if I swallow anything evil, put your finger down my throat"..................
+10 points my friend. Better times
Yes sir. They most certainly were.
It couldda been so much better. I finally threw in the towel and moved to Australia 8 years ago, best thing I ever did. America looks like a crazy place from here
My wife's an Aussie. Mid 60s and still looks like a Las Vegas showgirl. Lucky man sez I.
Forget the coat. Can I borrow fifty bucks?
They're doing it on purpose. They have to be.
Ass Sec of the Treasury Neel Kashkari
Press Secretary Jay Carney
I had another great example that's slipped my mind...
Timothy Geithner
One More Haiku Friendly Name
Cheats On His Taxes
"Iraq to the Future"
next thing you know they will trot out Maan Sagg.
Saad Maan, Maan Saag, Bozz Scaggs, Yoko Ono, Tikki Takki, Rodger Rabbit. whats in a name?
That guy on the video sounded much better than Obama!
Now that we're aware of the lies, deceit and duplicitousness of our War Criminal Government;Baghdad Bob's statements don't seem so far fetched.
Still, he is NOT sadder than Kerry.
Yea that Kelly Kerry is real knockout.
He must be married.
Greatest post ever.
Agreed
I third that motion!
Plus +1000!
This isn't Thursday humor?!
No, it's just saad.
Is he related to Abu Hassan Bunny Saadr? (former bigshot under the Ayatollah).
My friends call me Lenny... only I ain't got no friends. [Leonard Smalls, Raising Arizona]
One of the best ever!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoXJKArYi1g
sorry but had to throw this in...
have ya'll noticed the how they once again r fucking with the phony paper prices of the only 2 forms of real money in the Globex where no one but the fucking bankers r selling...
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html
just sayin.
Brigadier General Saad Maan Ibrahim....
You've got to be kidding.
Brigadier Fucking General?
Looks like a Bugle Boy. Poor bastard.
I count three stars on his epaulet....must be on a different system over there.
I guess with all the other brass either getting dead or surrendering...the promotions went in hyper drive.
PFC to Major in a day! Yeehaw!
Dune promotion?
John Kerry: 'So, Saad Maan- Why the long face?!?'
Saad Maan: 'Look who's talking, Eeyore!!'
See, this is the kind of creative writing I'm looking for in these shows. 'Saad Maan' - classic, give the guy who came up with that a bonus, and make sure he's involved in our next project - that's fucking awesome writing.
'Chemical Ali' was Saddam's Cousin who gassed Kurds.......... 'Comic Ali' was the propagandist who was farcical......
Perfect name for a guy attempting to narrate this epic shitshow.
Bah ha! Why are we helping these fuckers?
We need WilliamBonzai7 to photoshop Carney`s face on Saad Maan for a real treat.
No one knows what it's like to be the Saad Maan.
He's my man (Comical Ali). He was great. Somebody accused us of hiring him and putting him there. He was a classic.
http://jumpingpolarbear.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/comical-ali-meme.jpg
Comical Ali quotes:
Some of the quotes are in fact prophetic.
https://web.archive.org/web/20121024044442/http://www.welovetheiraqiinfo...
"Is he related to Abu Hassan Bunny Saadr? (former bigshot under the Ayatollah)."
Possibly, and that would implicate Bun E. Carlos. It never ends....the horror.....the horror...
Meanwhile in Poland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO3-Wu_rdxA
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=323503806&ft=1&f=
Reminds me of that other spokesman we have here from the Whitehouse...what's his name...oh yeah, "Hugh Janus"
That guy's a two-faced ass!
It's starting to make sense. Maliki pulled Morsi on the US, so now we're trying to use ISIS to clean the house, much like we used neo-nazi's to help overthrow Ukrainian government. The plan is to let them do most of the work and then take over... the only problem is that last half a dozen times we tried keeping our hands clean, it backfired.
ISIS is out of control, yet we believe we can channel them in the right direction - around the embassy and away from the oil wells.
The question that bothers me is who the next target is. At some point we're going to use the current regime change as a pretext for invading somebody else. We've already shelled every country Cheney named in his 2003 speech. What's at the end of the run? Russia? Saudis themselves? Could we actually be going after the Saudis?
Backfired? What makes you think the US is supposed to win this round?
This is about pure chaos and its leverage to usher in new eras, I'm guessing (given there is NO other solution to CBs gone wild).
Using ISIS to dump Maliki gives the added frisson of putting Iran on the hot seat, much as the ball is very much in Putin's court vis-a-vis the Yatzis in Ukraine.
And I think next up is already Nigeria. They've got a lot of energy resource reserves, they've refused to let US troops be stationed there, and they've had the temerity to try to take a leadership role in their region. We told them, "Pretty nice country you've got here; sure would be a shame if Muslim Terr'ists wrecked the place, hmm?" and they said they could handle Boko Haram themselves, thank you very much. Mere moments later as such things go, Boko Haram turns up with lots of new weapons just in from what's left of Libya, actual bomb-making knowledge, communications gear, lots of money, etc.
As usual, a good atlas with resource maps helps a lot. To build a big pipeline to Europe from Nigeria, going through Libya and under the Mediterranean, would cut Russia out and make a Middle East pipeline through Syria unnecessary. Which would be handy if Assad plays party-pooper on that deal.
Just my $.02.
It’s satire.
But David Swanson hits Middle East history with a thrust so strong that the humor in its basic truth will make you weep.
A Brief History of Iraq for Westerners by David Swanson | War Is A Crime.org | LewRockwell.com
June 19, 2014
Iraq was saved from ignorant subhuman barbarism by a gentlewoman named Gertrude at the time that the civilized nations of the world were, in a quite advanced and sophisticated manner, slaughtering their young men in a project now called the First World War.
Because the Arabs were too backward to be allowed to govern themselves, or even to contemplate creating a world war, and because tribes and ethnicities and religions never really garner much loyalty or support that can’t be wiped away with a good cup of tea or a few clouds of poison gas, and because the French were too dumb to know where the oil was, it became necessary for the British to install an Iraqi leader who wasn’t Iraqi, through a democratic election with one candidate running.
The great Winston Churchill explained the governance of Iraq and the new civilizing technique of bombing civilians thusly: “I am strongly in favor of using poison gas against uncivilized tribes.” Others failed to see the wisdom, and the Royal Air Force used non-chemical “terror bombing, night bombing, heavy bombers, [and] delayed action bombs (particularly lethal against children)” to police disobedient Iraqis. Only by developing these techniques on Iraqis were the world’s civilizers prepared to use them on Nazis when the time came to level German cities in the name of defeating Nazis, which of course also places the rest of this paper beyond the reach of moral criticism.
Iraqis, from the formation of Iraq by Gertrude to this day, were never quite able to create a democracy for the CIA to overthrow as in neighboring Iran. But the idea that Iraqis have been violent or resistant to control because of lack of representation misses the central fact that people in the Middle East enjoy killing each other over sectarian differences. Of course it’s hard to find evidence of significant sectarian fighting in Iraq prior to 2003 and some say there wasn’t any. There was violent looting of Jewish neighborhoods in 1941, but the British government keeps all information on that event secret. There was bombing of synagogues in Baghdad in 1950-51 but that turned out to have been done by Zionists trying to convince Jews to come to Israel. And “until the 1970s nearly all Iraq’s political organisations were secular, attracting people from all religions and none.” But what was simmering just below the surface waiting to burst out at the slightest scratching?
Think how little it took. Supporting and arming a brutal dictator in Saddam Hussein and his catastrophic war against Iran, then bombing Iraq and imposing the most murderous sanctions in history, and then newly bombing Iraq and occupying it for 8 years while arming and training death squads and torturers and imposing sectarian segregation, creating 5 million refugees, and killing a half-million to a million-and-a-half people, while devastating the nation’s infrastructure, and then imposing a puppet government loyal to one sect and one neighboring nation. That, plus arming the new government for vicious attacks on its own people, while arming mad killers in neighboring Syria, some of whom want to combine parts of Syria and Iraq: that was all it took, and suddenly, out of nowhere, ignorant Arabs are killing each other, just out of pure irrationality, just like in Palestine.
During the 8 years of U.S.-led occupation people mistook purely irrational violence that had been bubbling under the surface for centuries for resistance to the occupiers, and now some imagine that part of the violence against the puppet government is motivated by grievances against that government. But this misses the fundamental truths here, which are:
1. Shock and Awe was meant to put people at ease and make them comfortable.
2. The plan to rid Iraq of weapons it was about to use against those of us who matter was successful beyond the wildest expectations, working retroactively by a decade.
3. Our great leaders, Bush and Cheney, meant well in giving Iraqis freedom even if they weren’t ready for it.
4. The election of Maliki was even more legitimate than the election of Faisal.
5. When the Bush-Maliki treaty ended the U.S. military presence in Iraq, that was thanks to President Obama who is way smarter than Bush but couldn’t get Iraq to let U.S. troops stay with immunity for crimes — crimes of course being necessary for policing, just ask Winnie.
6. When Iraq remained a disaster, that was President Obama’s fault for focusing too much on murdering people in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Yemen, and never Iraq — as if we just don’t care about Iraq any more.
7. The U.S. weapons being seized and used against the U.S. puppet government in Iraq are no match for the vast stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction that we can and must ship into Iraq now to be seized and redirected later on down the road.
8. The few people getting rich from all of this misery mean well.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/06/david-swanson/a-brief-history-of-iraq-for-westerners/
Sa'ad Ma'an, meet Sivil Wa'ar.
No fuckin way! I just saw that guy at the convenience store staring at the chips aisle trying to figure out which chips to buy.
I ain't playin' bitchez, he is the one!
Meanwhile in Utah...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxF494XR__A
Al-Sahaf certainly had some cojones on him. People seem to ridicule him but can you imagine any of the Washington regime's LGBT brigade giving it simillar? Wolfowitz soiled himself when Iraqi insurgents got wind of his little Green Zone tour and fired in a few mortar rounds.
Straw maans brother.
Time for a new deck of cards.
I think if I have the slang right this is what the Brits calling taking the piss at the expense of John Kerry. At least the Iraqi's have a sense of humor.