As the war winds down, it's hard to forget the moments of comic relief given by the Iraqi Information Minister. While the American media documented countless cases of coalition triumphs, the Information Minister flatly denied anything happened and insisted the Iraqis had fought them off and killed them in a last-ditch effort to inspire the Iraqis to rise up against the infidels who were invading the country. He hasn't been seen for a few days but his words will last for a long time.

Here a few choice quotes that to us here seem hilarious; a vast number more can be found at this link.

"Even those who live on another planet, if there are such people, would have condemned this action before it started."

"Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld. They are the funny trio."

Any apparent American gains, he said, were a cunning ploy by the Iraqis to lure the enemy into a trap. "Our armed forces, according to their tactics, are leaving the way open."

About Bush and Rumsfeld: "Those only deserve to be hit with shoes."

"Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president."

"Those Iraqi fighters are slapping those gangsters on the face, and then when they flee, they will kick their backsides."

"We're going to drag the drunken junkie nose of Bush through Iraq's desert, him and his follower dog Blair...There are 26 million Saddams in Iraq."

"Iraqi fighters in Umm Qasr are giving the hordes of American and Brtish mercenaries the taste of definite death. We have drawn them into a quagmire and they will never get out of it."

"The United Nations....[is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans."

"It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait."

"We will kill them all........most of them."

[On surrenders] "Those are not Iraqi soldiers at all. Where did they bring them from?"

"You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay."