The First Casualty of War Is…
…parody.
Jerry Haleva, 2000:
Q. Isn't that a little weird, that all these people in Washington want pictures of Saddam Hussein? What do you make of that?
A. I think Americans—especially Americans—like to find humor in all things. And that's particularly true with things that are horrific. If you look at tragedies that occur, we try to move quickly to jokes about them.
Jerry Haleva, 2003:
[S]ome things are no longer funny. My physical resemblance to Saddam may well be one of them