Domingo Soto: Because Freedom Isn't Dumb

IT'S IN THE CARDS
It seems that friends and foe alike are spoofing the Iraq playing cards.
A Russian newspaper can't keep enough in stock of the deck featuring the Bush royal family. It includes Bush as the Jack of Hearts, Laura Bush as the Queen of Hearts and National Security Advisor Condolezza Rice as the Queen of Diamonds. The pack contains 36 cards, the number of cards in a traditional Russian deck, and each suit has a particular meaning. The hearts are called the 'family' and feature the Bush family and their trusted friends."

A notoriously idiotic Frenchman's version of the cards is less Bush-friendly. "'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.' "
(CHANNELNEWS ASIA AND CNN, Illustration from ChannelNews Asia)