Playing Cards Mock Defense Dept. Deck
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A high school teacher, fed up with the Bush administration’s popular playing cards featuring Saddam Hussein and other most-wanted Iraqis, is now selling her own deck, “Operation Hidden Agenda.”
Kathy Eder’s 55 playing cards show pictures of President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and others, along with quotes questioning the rationale for the war. The backs feature a 1983 photo of Rumsfeld shaking Hussein’s hand.
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