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Newsbrief:
CIA
Propaganda
Radio
Rap
Song
Links
Saddam
to
Demon
Weed
4/18/03
Ah, those wacky guys at the
CIA! According to BBC Monitoring, which selects and translates information
from media sources worldwide, a Kuwait-based, CIA-sponsored radio station
has been playing a rap-style parody of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
in which the US's demon du jour brags about smoking pot.
To the tune of Coolio's "Gangsta's
Paradise," a Saddam impersonator raps a message from the missing leader
in English and Arabic:
"Bush wanna kick me, I don't
know why and if I call him, he does me goodbye.
"Smoking weed and getting
high. I know the devil is by my side.
"My days are finished and
I will die -- all I need is chili fries."
The parody, being broadcast
on so-called Radio Tikrit, also has Hussein proclaiming such bon mots as
"If you don't like me I will kill you, I am Saddam," and "I am so dead,
I am so bad, I am big daddy, this is my game, I don't have any feelings,
I don't have any shame."
Your tax dollars at work.
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Issue #283, 4/18/03
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