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10/24/2006

NYT on the Iraqi version of the Daily Show

Filed under: — adam @ 8:45 am

This is a NYT article about an Iraqi show which seems to be called “Hurry Up, He’s Dead”.

The description is painful to read, a horrible ironic reminder of the awfulness:

“In a recent episode, the host, Saad Khalifa, reported that Iraq’s Ministry of Water and Sewage had decided to change its name to simply the Ministry of Sewage — because it had given up on the water part.”

“Mr. Sudani, the writer, said he has lost hope for his country. Iraq’s leaders are incompetent, he said. He fears that services will never be restored. The American experiment in democracy, he said, was born dead.

All anyone can do, he said, is laugh.”

Via Perry Metzger:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/world/middleeast/24show.html?ex=1319342400&en=1bf22396b7ede7a3&ei=5090&
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One Response to “NYT on the Iraqi version of the Daily Show”

  1. Angelator Says:
    October 24th, 2006 at 10:11 am

    I’m glad to see that they still have a sense of humor about
    the whole thing. I have to hand it to them, I wonder
    if we could do the same in this country after all they
    have been through!

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