Fake leaders

Fake leaders[/u]
John McCaslin
March 23, 2004

Money will buy anything these days - including an imaginary foreign leader who will not only support your presidential candidacy, he will lie for you.

On the heels of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry insisting that numerous foreign leaders (whom he declines to name) have endorsed his bid for the White House, a politically motivated entrepreneur, who appears to be from India, has placed himself on the EBay auction block as the imaginary "leader of a foreign nation that supports your candidacy for president of the United States until the elections in November."

"I'll play along with you with whatever you want me to say," says the pretend head of state. "If you want me to tell some pesky Republican who calls you out at a campaign stop that I support you, I'll back you up. ... Just like you, I'm willing to say anything it takes to get you elected. I won't mean a bit of it, and I'll change my stand on the situation when it is politically convenient."

Last time we checked, the bidding, which started at $10, surpassed $15,099. The high bidder was a woman named Zelda.

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SUFFICIENT REASON

During the same week former White House national security official Richard Clarke is condemning the Bush administration for marching on Baghdad to dethrone Saddam Hussein, every member of Congress is opening "Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves," a report highlighting the worst human rights atrocity of Saddam's regime.

"Hundreds of thousands of murdered Iraqis, including women holding their children with bullet holes, lie in at least 270 mass grave sites around the country," says Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), who has seen fit to mail each member a copy of the report.

"Saddam's mass graves represent a crime against humanity surpassed in scope only by the World War II Nazi Holocaust, Pol Pot's Cambodian communist killing fields in the 1970s, and the Rwandan genocide in 1994," says Wilson.