Spade and Diamond

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The Death Card

vexx78

on Dec. 21, 2008

When the US invaded Iraq the military issued 'Most Wanted cards' to help troops identify Iraqi Leaders. More info can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most-wanted_Iraqi_playing_cards


The Ace of Spade is considered a Death card by military folks and being the highest card in the deck they labeled Saddam as the Ace of Spade. In retrospect I believe we should have but Osama Bin Laden as the Ace of Spade instead of going after Saddam.