Who is baghdad bob

Last week I was having specialty dental work performed. We humans are a study in contradictions. It sometimes makes me wonder if we even know what we really want or even As our country emerges from the longest war in its history, the 4.

Back in my days as a corporate manager, we were working to finish a project before Christmas for a customer. In the post-invasion chaos, al-Sahaf gave a few interviews to media outlets that summer, then disappeared from public view.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf made so many statements as information minister. Here is a sampling of some of his more outlandish quotes:. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. John A. Tures My undergraduates investigate to see if presidents can rebound from bad polls. Rob Grubbs Confessions of a Braves-Lifer. Alex McRae Winners.

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City, State and ZIP. He surfaced in Abu Dhabi in July of , gave a couple of interviews, and settled into obscurity. But in retrospect, the opposite seems truer. Sahaf had bad information, sure, but several of his more ludicrous predictions have since come true--some in the ways he meant, and, more chillingly, some in ways no one else could have foreseen. Sahaf's nickname, "Baghdad Bob," now denotes someone who confidently declares what everyone else can see is false--someone so wrong, it's funny.

But when read beside the eventual cost of America's decade in Iraq, "Baghdad Bob" isn't so funny anymore. Nor did Iraq have 18 mobile laboratories for making anthrax and botulism, as Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed before the United Nations in February , nor had Saddam Hussein recently tried to buy large quantities of uranium from Africa, as President Bush asserted in his State of the Union address.

A decade of war was based on things that had never taken place. One day, they [will] start facing bitter facts. They do not know in what mud they are wading. Let me give simple, responsible reasons: 1 It was a cakewalk last time; 2 they've become much weaker; 3 we've become much stronger; and 4 now we're playing for keeps.

Adelman was right that beating Hussein's military power would be easy-ish, though it took longer than George Bush Sr. What Adelman didn't realize--and Sahaf did--was that occupation, not invasion, would be the bitter pill. Result: not a picnic. We are in our country, among our kith and kin.