Selling Osama

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EVERY GENERATION has its war, and every war has its merchandise. During the ’70s, Americans supported our nation with “Ayatollah is an Assahollah” T-shirts. During the Gulf War, some patriots bolted “Bomb Saddam” license plates to their Camaros, while others used anti-Saddam condoms, confident that, as the directions suggested, the prophylactic would “Help Prevent Unwanted Mistakes Like SADDAM HUSSEIN.” As for me, I swapped Gulf War trading cards.

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