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'Hunt for WMD' Game Launched Using Public Documents
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."
What is this dude a former advertising exec from Acclaim?
I was looking at the website and don't see where you get the "trust-fund Bush hater" bit. What page are you looking at?
It's simple: I demand prosecution for torture.
Is that different then trust-fund Bush doing a bit of grandstanding?
Did I accidently type fark instead of slashdot this morning?
Actually, RTFA. The guy is a "left-leaning Republican"... He doesn't agree with the way it was handled, but he says he really does believe there are WMDs. The whole thing is a publicity stunt to get $$$ to make it through law school.
It must be Thursday... I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Only in america could someone do this and make money. If i had some i by it just to reward the guy. At least untill he patents the idea of hunting for WMD's that is.
From countries where a real left wing exists, USian democrats certainly look right-wing.
i give this game a week before someone cracks it and figures out where the WMD are.
what actually would be funny is if someone did finish the game and put the FAQ here
Shane Messer to George W. Bush: "Zing!"
You sure showed him!
I don't really mind double posts on
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.
Anyone who knows me will realize that I'm far more interested in this game's similarity to Kit Williams' Masquerade puzzle book from the '80s (as I mentioned in the department line on the story) than any political statement.
Hey hey, I found a document proving the existence of WMD -- turns out they declared them to the UN! And that they had the ability to manufacture more! Check it out:
. pdf
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/18130
Anthrax, Botulinum, VX... Totally awesome, eh? Better yet, the agents and methods of production were never accounted for. I'm going to contact this contest guy right now. That trophy is as good as mine.
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If you spent 1 second learning to read you would see the text "Your tools? a CD, a booklet of 10 clues, a matrix, and a map of Iraq" just below the picture.
Also:
Um, it's no secret that Saudi Arabia is trying to acquire a nuclear capabilities.Next!
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Interesting question - *is* it a troll?
It will create gigantic flames and whatnot, of course, towering into the Slashdot sky. However this is just a measure of the contentious nature of the question - to what extent did the US administration knowingly lie and/or exaggerate the Iraq threat in order to create the case for a war they had already decided upon?
However much the ultra-right crazies may froth about it, it is a fair question.
It was stated categorically by almost all the top figures in the White House that such weapons existed and were a clear and present danger. It even made it into the SOTU.
So far, however, such claims appear to have been false. Read that however you will, but the question of honesty is relevant and important.
I just find it interesting that simply *asking where they are, after all* might be considered flamebait.
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.
Why does Bush get the trophy? He can't seem to find any WMD's he isn't building himself or planning to launch.
a copy of Conflict: Desert Storm or the sequel, given that you'll need about $50 to retrieve it. This would make good sense, as the real key is the explanation of why the place-holder is where it is and we don't want to have any chance of the place-holder's being moved or anyone seeing the guy putting it places.
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I'm really disappointed that the website does not warn George Bush the game is not real. He's probably already ordered it and has poor post-op Powell already on the trail of the "WMDs".
:)
I just hope he doesn't use the game in the upcoming state of the union as more proof for their existence, although maybe it's more reliable than British intel?
I wonder why he is acting like it is a mystery where they are. We already know what happened to them. Thanks to the UN's grandstanding and BS, they had more than eight weeks to move them to the Bekaa Valley. And Syria and Lebanon have to be more than happy to have their hands on them.
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I suspect the main reason for this is the gigantic size of the US.
Fundamentally, I suspect that the amount of authority that a government can have over its subjects and not end up being oppressive is inversely proportional to the size of the governed population.
A country the size of, say, France (one step down in economic power from the STATE of California, last I heard) can get away with being fairly socialistic. The entire nation of the US attempting to do so would turn into the Soviet Union...
Now, if Europe REALLY wanted the problem solved, perhaps they'd be encouraging the states that make up the US to secede and form a number of smaller, independent nations much as they have in Europe. Said states could possibly become rather "less right-wing" without resulting in a grossly oppressive and ponderous central government...
Just a theory I have.
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What the heck is a USian? Is that someone from the United States of Mexico?
Flamebait. My point is proven by the the liberal mods. I'm a liberterian myself so I hold to neither "ultra conservative" or "bed-wetter" but I do think that the hostility shown towards a differing opinion just goes to prove that the liberals like those here at Slantdot are hostile, defensive, and angry. Congrats on proving me right with your completely irrational moderation.
Bingo. The use of the adjective "imaginary" is editorializing. Take a journalism class.
I mean, they probably won't findthem in the game, much like the US can't find them in reality.
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The British intel on weapons was basically, we knew what we sold to them and had an idea what America had sold to them.
:)...... go figure.
As for everything else, the British seem to believe that it was American intel that was flawed
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Ok, keep repeating that and it'll become true. All that intelligence was old and proved incomplete.