Tribolum.com Making Light of Things

First was “Chemical Ali”. Now it’s “Dr. Germ” and “Missile Man”. Who on earth comes up with such ridiculous nicknames for the captured Iraqi officials and scientists? If I had the resources, I’d do an in-depth investigation of whether Nickelodeon is the puppetmaster behind the news networks.

Did it occur to you that Dr. Germ, the alleged cornerstone of Saddam’s chemical weapons program, is a woman? All this time we’ve been hearing about how women are being oppressed and denied an education, and now the brains behind the whole operation is a woman?

Maybe Iraq was a much closer paradigm of an effective Middle Eastern government than the west gave them credit for. After all, a lot of the flak the Iraqi government suffers comes after the sanctions levied upon it by the United Nations (spearheaded by the U.S.). I found it highly ironic that the news ticker today read “Bush wants U.N. to lift sanctions against Iraq”.