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Meet "Correct the Record"'s new online media consultant assistant to David Brock: (Original Post) brentspeak May 2016 OP
Okay I'm being daft.. choie May 2016 #1
Baghdad Bob brentspeak May 2016 #2
NO!!!!!!!! choie May 2016 #3

brentspeak

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2. Baghdad Bob
Thu May 12, 2016, 11:35 PM
May 2016
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (Arabic: محمد سعيد الصحاف? Muḥammad Saʿīd Al-Ṣaḥḥāf; born 1940) is a former Iraqi diplomat and politician. He came to wide prominence around the world during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Iraqi Information Minister under Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, acting as the spokesperson for the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and Saddam's regime.

He is best known for his grandiose and grossly unrealistic propaganda broadcasts before and during the war, extolling the invincibility of the Iraqi Army and the permanence of Saddam's rule. His announcements were intended for an Iraqi domestic audience subject to Saddam's cult of personality and total state censorship, and were met with widespread derision and amusement by Western nationals and others with access to up-to-date information from international media organizations. In the US he was popularly known as Baghdad Bob, in the UK as Comical Ali, and in Italy as Alì il Comico.
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