Wonder how many kids cried after getting the Dan Quayle card.
The USS Missouri was known as Big Mo, apparently. I guess the guy in the pic was on that ship idk
Could also be that they call him that for short since his name is Mubarak.
He's from the Kuwaiti Air Force. He gets a mention in this WaPo article:
https://archive.is/C0ORN
Keeps my holographic Highway of Death and Nayirah rookie card scratch free.
As a kid I never knew who Dan Quail was except that his name was used for the lowest rank in Civilization II. I never usually scored higher than this.
I remember that, pretty solid burn from the usually lib Civilization series.
Back in the 90's libs still had a few bones left in their spines
The severity of the Civilization series's global warming effects got less severe as global warming became more politicized.
Most fampusly known for cirrecting a child's spelling at a spelling bee to "Potatoe"
H.W. Bush: owned by Bart Simpson
Quayle: owned by Murphy Brown
Wonder why they didn’t get re-elected
Colin Powell was OP with his anthrax false flag attack.
You can debuff him with Gulf War Syndrome, it stacks. It's balanced if you play right, just saying.
My brother, last I checked, still has two mint Saddam Hussein cards.
Verhoven media are just documentaries from a slightly different timeline that leaked into our reality.
I feel like the actual demo for this kind of shit back then was like retired enlisted, that after spending 20 years on military bases, eating powdered eggs, handing out socks and inventorying laundry detergent, don't really know what to do with themselves or their days, so they buy shit like this, curate it, and keep it in a memorabilia area of the room their wife isn't allowed to clean.
This is an extremly fascinating piece of nedia, I only ever knew these for the football world coup, or the like. Did they sell these to children?
Had a box of these. Collected them ironically. Carpet bombing was the fav but so many choice propaganda pieces to choose from. Wow this takes me back
I had a Stormin Norman card...but, as any MTG fan knows, Storm is OP
The Extended Perfect (Desert) Storm.
Playing against Mind’s Desire back in the day was one of the most demoralizing experiences I’ve ever had, and I’ve been playing competitively since ~Planeshift.
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place by Jean Baudrillard explores how the media spectacle took over and became "the war" as much as the real war.
Wonder how many kids cried after getting the Dan Quayle card.
Literally
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