War Humor
 

"But you know there's some confusion now whether Saddam Hussein is actually alive or dead," David Letterman joked on CBS' "The Late Show." "They had videotape on Iraqi television earlier today, and it's so confusing. It's Saddam Hussein ... and he's speaking at his own funeral."

"Today, Saddam Hussein was supposed to appear on television and rally the Iraqi people ... but he was replaced at the last minute by Peter Arnett," Leno joked on NBC's "The Tonight Show."

"Today the U.S. Army kicked Geraldo Rivera out of Iraq," Craig Kilborn said on CBS' "The Late Late Show." "Why didn't someone tell us you can kick out Geraldo?"

"There was another war-related casualty today," Leno joked in Thursday's broadcast. "The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon."

Later on "The Tonight Show" Thursday, guest Dennis Miller ridiculed celebrity anti-war activists from Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks to Oscar winner Michael Moore, who was booed when he criticized President Bush at the Academy Awards. "It is that stupid moron's right to be that utterly completely wrong," Miller said.

When Rumsfeld said in a press conference last Friday that Syria and Iran would be held accountable if they interfered in Iraq, Stewart had material for a comedic rant.

"There is nothing like a cantankerous old man who takes a hey-you-kids-get-off-my-lawn approach to foreign policy," he said. "The guy's literally just like a drunk swinging a broken bottle at people. 'Hey, Netherlands, you looking at me?' "

The satirical newspaper The Onion this week joked that the Bush administration has grown bored with the war after only two weeks. One article featured the fictitious quote from Bush whining: "I don't think my dad's war took this long, and we've got much better weapons now."

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