Good news, for a change. If you’re like me, except nuts, you have probably been wondering, “With so much violence in the world, and so little in the way of affordable drugs, is there any way I, as a moonbat, can personally make a meaningful apology to Saddam Hussein for causing so much hardship to his armies of evil henchmen? Well, not a personal apology, since I didn’t do any of that army stuff. But isn’t there some way to, like, do a, kind of, apology for other people? Like, ‘I’m sorry someone else liberated your country, dude’?”

The answer, my groovy friend, is yes. The folks at forusa.org have assembled an array of snapshots of photogenic narcissists just like you, culled from all across the country, all of whom are convinced that they liberated Iraq, and are dreadfully sorry for the whole affair.

(Note: all images on this post were modified by the author. The original images are at forusa.org.)

Soon they will be forwarding these heartfelt messages of commiseration to Saddam Hussein himself, but time is running out! As their website says, “Last Call for IRAQ Photo Project Join 2,000 people who have already told Iraqis how they feel! Final deadline for submissions: October 12.” Oops. We missed it, huh?

Not to worry, though. Tell ya what. Send your apology to Saddam to me instead. Take a photo of yourself with your like-minded co-apologists, and e-mail it to seangleeson@gmail.com . I’ll post all entries to this blog, so Saddam, who I’m told is a frequent visitor, will know that at least you care. (I may even retouch the photos for clarity.) I am posting the submitted apologies to my Page of Atonement.

A tip of the hat to LGF. A courteous nod to Power Line.

UPDATE: And a hearty bow of obeisance to Kevin at Wizbang, who linked to this noble gesture for peace and Baathist tyranny, right on his blog and everything. He also posted his own Photoshopic translation of one of the heartfelt apologies, which brought a tear to my eye.

I also see Tim Blair is plowing this fertile field.

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In this divisive election year, with feelings running high both for and against war hero gentleman senator John Kerry, there is at least one thing about this toothsome man that everyone can agree on: he has trouble communicating a consistent message.

Call it flip-flopping, call it nuance, or call it chopped liver; it sure does make picking a slogan difficult, doesn’t it? The ink isn’t even dry on the “Stronger at Home” signs, when he’s got to pull those for his new “Give Peace a Chance” message. And now that one gets scrapped for “Kill bin Laden, kill! Killl! Kill!” In fact, in the past week alone, he’s switched messages no fewer than eight times. That’s more often than socks!

That’s why the Kerry Sloganator is such a blessing. If you’ve never seen this slogan-generating website, see it now. If you have seen it, I’ll bet it’s been awhile, and you would enjoy a new visit. You can propose any slogan you want, and flop! out flips your Kerry sign.

To get you started, try these:
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Seven days ago we broke the story of the Nudegate scandal. So it’s been broken for a week. Kayti Didriksen, the comely barmaid who initially dispensed the scandalous alleged painting, has admitted she did it to embarrass the president, who she claims had somehow previously embarrassed her.

As an anxious nation has watched this unseemly tale of nudity, politics, and cocktails unfold, one allegation has managed to sit there like an unwanted lime garnish: Did the president at some time paint an atrocious malformed nude portrait of Miss Didriksen, as some allege? (It might look like our artist’s conception, below.) Is this how he embarrassed her?

Absolutely not, allege others. “Some people have been spending too many hours looking at left-wing conspiracy Web sites,” Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel said, in reference to something largely unrelated.

But yesterday, a cryptic anonymous comment appeared on blog.gleeson.us, a respected news source. It read, in part, “HA! Not surprising how you small-minded chumps criticize someone you know nothing about and have only seen a painting and have not heard a single word this person said about it.”

Since the anonymous comment also contained hate speech (specifically praising Adolf Hitler), which violates blog.gleeson.us policies, the management deleted it, and banned the originating I.P. address 138.88.171.162 (a residential Verizon account) from further activity here.

But questions remain. Who is really behind this attempt to silence these rumors of presidential artmongering? Could it be Karl Rove, as some allege? And just how closely is this scandal related to this one, or that one, or how about these five other scandals?

We will continue courageously to pursue this story, wherever it leads.