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February 01, 2005

Just Wait Until Cobra Commander Gets a Hold of Him

When I saw this photo with this story, my first thought was:

Hmmm, looks like a toy soldier. And a toy gun pointed at him. Photographed up close and blurry.

Drudge is asking the same question; here's hoping it really is a toy and that the insurgents aren't just really crappy photographers who don't know how to use their camera lens.

Hope, hope, hope.

Update: Astute observations from a CNN military analyst:

He told CNN in a phone interview that the flak jacket in the picture had a kind of trim along the edges that he'd never seen before, and that the open-legged pants, as opposed to gathered hems, struck him as odd.

He also questioned what appeared to be camouflage paint on the face.

Apparently the fact that it looked like a toy didn't seem very important.

More Thoughts from Me: No idea why, but the name of the "soldier" was supposedly John Adam - the initials of which are J.A. - which could mean Jackass, which could mean Johnny Knoxville is behind it. Of course, that's probably a complete bunch of hooey, but it came through my mind with the ease of 6 pounds of Olestra in the colon of an IBS sufferer.

Yes, that was unnecessarily graphic and nasty. I apologize.