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Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, the only woman among the U.S. military's list of 55 most-wanted fugitives, and perhaps one of the few without a mustache, surrendered to authorities in Baghdad.

For her suspected role in developing deadly anthrax as a weapon, she was dubbed "Mrs. Anthrax" by Western journalists. In such a male dominated culture, having his wife be in the limelight must be difficult on her husband, "Mr. Anthrax" and all the little "Anthrax" children.

Her capture follows that of Rihib Taha, known as "Dr. Germ" for her role in the chemical weapons program, and the death of Ali Hassan al-Majid, a.k.a. "Chemical Ali."

I can't help but think that the next target is "Dr. Evil."

There's still one character on the loose, though. He was the one Iraqi official who provided some unintentional mirth during the hostilities.

The Iraqi Information Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf (M.S.S.), was a constant source of amusement with his overly optimistic assessments of the progress of the war, denying that coalition forces had made advances while bullets whizzed by his head. For his lack of credibility, he was given the nickname "Comical Ali," not to be confused with White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, whose obfuscations and avoidance of questions should earn him the moniker "Comical Ari."

The man (al-Sahah, not Fleischer) has become such a cult figure, that pro-war and anti-war people were able to find some common ground in their admiration for M.S.S., to the point that they developed the website www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com to share some of M.S.S.' notable quotes, such as:

"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"

"My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all" and

"Our initial assessment is that they will all die"

The site, which they describe as a "coalition effort of bloodthirsty hawks and ineffectual doves in admiration of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information (currently on administrative leave") has become internationally popular.

One has to wonder what this guy is like in real life. Is he in total denial of the circumstances around him in every aspect of life?

Most modern politicians have professional speechwriters. I'm trying to imagine what perhaps our greatest statesman, Abraham Lincoln would've sounded like if the Iraqi Information Minister had written the Gettysburg Address for him.

Here is Lincoln's legendary speech with actual quotes from M.S.S. mixed in and italicized.

"Four score and seven years ago our father brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, .... blood-sucking bastards.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have placed them in a quagmire from which they can never emerge except dead. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate;we cannot consecrate;we cannot hallow;this ground. They think we are retarded - they are retarded. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. We managed to chop off their rotten heads. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. We are not afraid of the Americans. Allah has condemned them. They are stupid. They are stupid (dramatic pause) and they are condemned.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us;that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion;;because we will behead you all----that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain;that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom;and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. We feed them death and hell!"

Our sixteenth president was known as "Honest Abe," but the Americans, they always depend on a method what I call ... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies.