Harry Higgens believed that—come the revolution—spin doctors should be the first persons lined up against the wall and liquidated.

Baghdad’s revolution arrived last week.

And Saddam Hussein’s regime hack, Mohammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, probably was liquidated by those bunker-busters dropped from an American B-1B bomber in the Mansour neighborhood.

Al-Sahhaf, Iraq’s information minister, couldn’t pass a Public Relations Society credentials exam. But he had more panache than Geraldo Rivera.

The Blowhard of Baghdad was probably a charter member of the Flat Earth Society.

The Sultan of Spin most certainly was the only source of humor in Operation Iraqi Freedom. (13 APRIL 2003)