Help! I really think I am going nuts, and I need to know if anyone else saw this news blurb on CNBC.(I think)I cann ot find a link to the story anywhere.
It showed how the soldiers were putting up pictures with Saddam Hussein's face on a buxom woman, one of him as Elvis, and some others I can't remember.
This activity was to boost the morale of the soldiers. One soldier who was interviewed said they wanted to put the pictures out where bad guys could see them. Then, when bad guys showed up, they would be dead in the water, or some similar expression.
The interviewer asked if the good guys might also get angry about this. The soldier's reply was that they were not pornographic. there was no nudity. They were just... (supplied by newswoman)"Pictures of Saddam as a woman?" Soldier: "Yeah."
I really thought I was watching a spoof of the news there for a minute. Did anyone else see this?
Kayla, can you help me find a link? Kayla, do you give lessons on search techniques?(seriously)
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
quote: Saddam is America's new "Elvis" Tue Aug 5, 9:43 AM ET
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - He used to be Mr President, The Leader (May God Preserve him) or The Respected General.
Now Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) is HVT No. 1, a "high-value target" to U.S. troops in Iraq (news - web sites), sometimes the Ace of Spades, as he appears in a deck of "most wanted" cards, more often just "The Big Guy".
But to the soldiers of the 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry Regiment out of Fort Hood Texas who are spearheading the hunt around Saddam's home town of Tikrit, he is simply "Elvis".
Not content with the Pentagon (news - web sites)'s photofit images of what the elusive dictator may now look like, their mess hall in one of his palaces sports a doctored official portrait showing a now quiffed and sideburned Saddam under the title "Elvis Lives!".
Inspired by countless supermarket tabloid "sightings" of the late rock legend, troops say they are on Saddam's trail.
"Course we gonna get Elvis," said one senior officer. "Last I heard he was working in a Burger King down in Tikrit."
Anything like that? I did a yahoo news search for Saddam and Elvis.
I didn't find much about him being altered to look like anything else, though our Government released photos of what he might look like after time on the run.
quote: The Pentagon also released a number of digitally altered photos of Saddam to soldiers, indicating how he might look after weeks on the lam.
One photo shows him with a snowy white thatch of hair replacing his jet-black locks.
Others show him looking old and haggard, sporting a beard and wearing a traditional Iraqi headdress.
Oh and for tips. . . I find that it is a matter of picking and choosing search terms. If you are looking for something specific (like your story) it helps if you can remember certain specific (unusual if possible) words. Like Elvis in a story about Saddam. If you remembered exactly the wording they used for the woman, if might help. More words is good, but only if they are the right words.
Also, it occasionally helps to start off broad and then search within those results.
But mostly, it's word choice.
[Edit: Oh, and you might check out google answers. If you read some of the questions that have been answered by google researchers, it might help. They always tell how they found the information they pass on.]
[ August 16, 2003, 10:05 PM: Message edited by: Kayla ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Thanks, Kayla, those were the ones that came up for me as well. It is weird. I am thinking that it was a little joke these soldiers were playing, and the press picked the dumbest-sounding soldier doing the dumbest possible thing, to make it look like that is all the soldiers are doing over there. Why, I don't know. The soldier seemed very young.
The whole thing was weird. I really had the feeling I was watching a satirical piece, but it was real. I just wish one other person saw it. Oh, well.
Maybe I will use this as my search homework, and see if I can find something else.