Best of RHF: Gulf War Jokebook

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Gulf War Collection

The war with Iraq was one of the biggest media events in history, if not the biggest. As a result, it generated more jokes in a shorter time span than any other event I can recall.

Many of the jokes were just recycled jokes from other wars; however a large number were original and germane to this particular war.

Below I have collected much of the best material based on the war and the circumstances around it. Most of it is the new material, though you will find a few recycled bits. I don't believe any other collection of this sort exists outside this book.

Be warned that some of the jokes here could be considered racist towards Arabs and Iraqis. Such was the culture bred by the war.

Charge (George S. Vaughan) topical, funny

Fair exchange (Kevin R. Grazier) topical, chuckle

Good news / bad news (Mike Coyne) topical, original, chuckle

Pre-War Iraq Jokes (The Editor) topical, chuckle

Education and war (David Hiebeler) topical, funny

The Stealth Missile in Action (Ryan Mathews) topical, chuckle

Desert Storm light bulb (James Brister) topical, chuckle

Kuwaiti business bumper sticker (patti%hose2@uunet.uu.net) topical, chuckle

Saddam Hussein's Last Words (James C. Armstrong) topical, chuckle

Milk factory (Charles Bryant) topical, funny, pun

Irony is the best Medicine (Garret Swart) topical, chuckle

Public Enemy Number Two (Loren Schwiebert) topical, chuckle

Kiam/Saddam comeback (Evan Morton) topical, sexual, chuckle, original

Joke from Jay Leno (Yang Wang) topical, chuckle

This one bombed in Baghdad (C.ROCK2@genie.com) topical, chuckle

Iraqi "Chess" (Michael Tod Rose) original, funny, topical

Iraq around the clock (top ten lists) (Maddi Hausmann) topical, original, funny

Iraq War Drinking Game (P Scannell) topical, chuckle

How to avoid THE DRAFT (James Welcher) topical, chuckle

Airport security (Ben Hawkins, ACS Staff) topical, chuckle

Iraqi Flag (Dave Hitt) topical, chuckle

Saddam Hussein's Law Degree (Bill Jefferys) topical, original, funny

Holy SCUDs, Batman! (Steven Grimm) topical, chuckle, offense=religious

Republican Guard (John E. Elsbree) chuckle, topical, original

Another SCUD Joke (Don Gallerie) topical, chuckle

The trials of Saddam (A.NEFT@genie.com) topical, funny

Iraqi banking (Naresh Sehgal ~) topical, chuckle

Coming for to carry me home (KRAFTY) topical, pun, chuckle

Soviet miner (John J Chew) topical, chuckle

What did they expect? (Mark Bradford) topical, chuckle, original

Desert storm on the home front (Gregory T. Byrd) topical, funny, original, scatological

Another Hussein Top 10 list (bill owens) topical, original, funny

Original: Palestinian Homeland (Emmett Black) original, topical, chuckle

Domino's Delivers (Q) topical, chuckle

Desert Storm is not another Viet Nam (John Felleman) original, topical, chuckle, national stereotypes

Iraqi joke from Bahrain (short, but true) (Alun Jones) topical, chuckle

Saddam's top ten withdrawal conditions (Dave Bakken) topical, funny, original, national stereotypes

All We Are Saying (morgan@jessica.stanford.edu) topical, true, chuckle

Addressing mail to Desert Storm troops (Geoff Allen) topical, smirk

What's Saddam funny? (Dave Kirsch) topical, chuckle, sexual

ANOTHER Persian Gulf War joke (Tim Wood) topical, chuckle

A possible Surrender in the Gulf? (Phil OKunewick) chuckle, topical

U.S. Banking quip... (Steven Wood) topical, smirk

Finally, some good news for Iraq (Sean Foderaro) topical, original, smirk

The Gulf War on TV (Tom Comeau) topical, smirk

Intern Arab Americans? (Brian Kelley) original, national stereotypes, smirk, topical

Offensive to Americans (Frederick Wamsley) topical, smirk

Changes in the Iraqi Army (Mark Osbourne) topical, smirk, iraq

Between Iraq and a hard place (T.BIGGS1@genie.com) topical, national stereotypes, smirk

Saudi National Anthem (herlihy@crl.dec.com) topical, smirk

SadDAM v. SADdam.... (Matt Byer) topical, true, smirk

Last hope for peace (Evan Morton) topical, original, smirk

Saddam, Time to take your medicine! (Robert M. Panoff) topical, original, smirk

I give up! (M. J. Saltzman) topical, true, smirk

Those wacky weapon names (Jim) topical, original, smirk

A ransom note (Robert Ullmann) topical, smirk, original

Wait'll next year... (Scott R. Anderson) laugh

Saddam's Bumper Stickers (Max Kent) chuckle

Iraqi Bumper Stickers (gumball) topical, chuckle, iraq

The DNC (Ted H. Emigh) topical, chuckle, iraq

Chemical Warfare (P Scannell) original, iraq, chuckle

Desert Storm...my way (Martin Soques) topical, funny

Israel's side of the Persian Gulf War (Jeremy J. Epstein) topical, sick, chuckle, iraq

Pentagon announces new-jargon deployment (Daniel Bowen) topical, chuckle, iraq

Saddam's Concert Tour (Mathew Shafe) original, chuckle

Zero Tolerance (Roger Crew) topical, sick, chuckle, iraq

Teddy Hussein (T.J. Higgins) chuckle

Middle East Jokes (T.KEITH1@genie.com) chuckle

Top 10 reasons Saddam is leaving Kuwait (Donald Jackson Pickett) topical, original, funny

Russian Tactics (R.POLLAND@genie.com) chuckle

Saddam's vacation plans (Jay Hersh) chuckle

World Series News (apucorle%idbsu.bitnet@utcs.utoronto.ca) topical, funny

Why Iraq is the 4th best (Steven Abrams) topical, smirk

Frequent Flyer (Richard W Travsky) topical, smirk

Video Trouble (Akiva Michelson) funny, true, iraq

Iraq Digest #1 (funny-request@looking.on.ca) topical, various

Iraq Digest, part II (The Editor) topical, various, national stereotypes

American & Iraqi pilots (Kupe) national stereotypes, smirk, rot13, topical

Yet another digest of Iraq war jokes (#3) (Funny Guy) various, national stereotypes, sick, etc., you name it

Iraq Digest, issue 4 (funny-request@looking.on.ca) various, topical

Probably the last Iraq Digest (funny-request@looking.on.ca) various, sick, national stereotypes, chuckle

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