Comedy is comedy, but when a Ba'athist leader is on the loose, giving cause to his followers in the East and the Fifth Column in the West, discretion can often be the better part of valor. After seeing this gallery of tyrant-mocking masterpieces (via Winds of Change), I've decided it's time to present my own Farkesque lampoons of the world's scruffiest ex-dictator.

The "Zsa Zsa Saddam" initiative, a most creative - if shortlived - psyops campaign, inspired this one. Yes, that is Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder leering in the background.

Enjoy. Iraqis like Zeyad get a kick out of finding their way past the old nightmare by laughing. Many times that's all any of us have, no? We should give them support - and an endless supply of material.