I try very hard to find humor in all situations, and with this war, I've had mixed success.

I DO sort of think it's funny that whenever we capture some alleged "criminal", it is announced that person was the "eight of diamonds" or some other card. Does this seem stupid to anyone else but me? Why cards?

If the terror alert level is orange, Rumsfeild is nice to a reporter, and we nab the King of Spades, do we win the terrorism trifecta?

The reason we won this war is because we have more money to buy better bombs and planes and night vision equipment. So if it comes down to money anyway, why don't we just play the next version of the war in a casino? Because that seems like the civilized thing to do, doesn't it? Whichever country runs out of money first, wins. Seems people wouldn't die that way. BushCo, USA would STILL get all the money, because few countries have more than we do. If we had all his money, I'm pretty sure we could have asked Saddam to leave because, let's face it, rent on a series of palaces is a BITCH these days. Not to mention the statue polish and the band of thugs to scare the populace into submission.

It seems we're already into the card thing, so why didn't we just take it to it's ludicrous conclusion? The results couldn't have been any more ludicrous than the state of affairs at the moment, could they?

While I kind of agree that it's a little weird for the news to report that we captured "the eight of diamonds", there is a reason that the faces were printed on cards. The tradition of printing things on cards as a wartime learning aid goes back at least to WWII (see http://www.guntheranderson.com/cards/aug97/spot.htm) -- people play a lot of poker during war.

Whether they really need to put these guys' faces in the hands of all the US soldiers is another question, but there is a history of putting out things like this on decks of playing cards.

My brother joked the other day that he thought the U.S. had gotten a straight flush with the seven officials captured.

And in response to your comments about war being fought in a casino, I would wholeheartedly support such a proposition. The side action would be enormous!!