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'Hunt for WMD' Game Launched Using Public Documents

Posted by simoniker on from the masquerade-for-the-00s dept.

prakslash writes "AP/The Tennessean reports that a Nashville entrepreneur, Shane Messer, has created an international treasure hunt game called 'Find Those Weapons: The Hunt for the Real WMD' by using actual public documents related to the American invasion of Iraq as clues. Messer's treasure for finding those imaginary weapons of mass destruction? A solid gold trophy, a bag of cash and a barrel of oil, according to the game's website." According to the rules, "If no one... claims the trophy by Election Day 2004.. [it] will be sent to George Bush."

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  1. Re:Leftist Republican? by Kobal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From countries where a real left wing exists, USian democrats certainly look right-wing.

  2. has nothing to do with real WMD. by fireduck · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it's basically "I like puzzle / riddle games. A major current event involves finding weapons of mass destruction. So why not combine the two into a game I can sell to make money for law school."

    anything else is reading far too much into it.

    1. Re:has nothing to do with real WMD. by MMaestro · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Except for the fact that the guy purposely used the topic of WMDs just to gain publicity. If the goal was to find a treasure chest of gold, this never would have been reported on Slashdot. This guy is basicly tapping into the anti-U.S. government setiment thats going around right now to make a quick buck.

  3. Re:Few if any right-wing democrats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Compared to most European countries, the American left wing is not very left wing. Just look at their standpoints on various subjects. To get an image of an average, standard, somewhat popular European left-wing party, just look at the American Green party. Americans are on average quite far right compared to the rest of the western world.

  4. Why Bush? by rocketfairy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why does Bush get the trophy? He can't seem to find any WMD's he isn't building himself or planning to launch.