PARIS, France (AP) -- The ace of spades? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gets the honor in a new French deck of cards. President Bush is the king of diamonds and Osama bin Laden the joker.
The game takes a jab at the famous deck of cards created for U.S. soldiers hunting down ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and other leaders from the deposed regime.
"I found it completely indecent to present a manhunt as a game," said Thierry Meyssan, the man behind the French deck. "We thought this card game would allow us to ... explain why we consider the government of George Bush a threat to international security."
Meyssan is the author of a one-time French best seller, "9-11: The Big Lie," claiming that no plane ever crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, and that the attacks were plotted by a faction within the U.S. military.
Now, Meyssan said in a telephone interview, he wants to expose "the 52 most dangerous American officials."
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I find this funny. Because the American Government can make or do anything they want too! But when someone else does anything like it, they ridicule it and say its in bad taste. 
I'm sorry, but do we really have to do this? I understand that this is a news story and all, but given what we've just had to endure with the likes of Infowarrior and Deathlok, why continue to offer up opportunities for people to continually denigrate and degrade the current US administration? There are many things wrong with our government, hell, any government, but what's to be gained by posting this type of story besides encouraging indiscriminate recriminations and hateful rhetoric? I'd lock it off myself, but I have to admit I'm highly biased, so I'll leave it up to Gareth or another mod to determine whether there's suitable reasons for allowing this thread to continue.
Magikman
Magikman
What annoys me about this, is that the person behind it is either not-all-there (he wrote a book denying a plane crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11 
), or he's got sneaking sympathies with Bin Laden (making him the joker).
), or he's got sneaking sympathies with Bin Laden (making him the joker).| QUOTE |
| "I found it completely indecent to present a manhunt as a game," said Thierry Meyssan, the man behind the French deck. "We thought this card game would allow us to ... explain why we consider the government of George Bush a threat to international security." |
Strangely enough, Meyssan doesn't find Islamic terrorists a threat to international security.
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