This is creepy...

So I'm just blog-surfing and I find this essay called ‘Baghdad Bob’ Was Not Wide of the Mark, Was He? While I'm convinced it is 100% right, it does have some interesting points. Here's part of it:

In the heady days of the Second Iraq War, when the West seemed to be winning Bush’s “war on terror,” Westerners laughed at Baghdad Bob, more formally known as Mohammed “no tanks” Saeed Al-Sahhaf, Saddam’s minister of information. Al-Sahhaf’s cocksure pronouncements of Iraqi military victory against US “coalition” forces — always made with an air of studied casualness — had then a hilarity about them that spawned endless jokes.

But that was then. This is now.