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'Hunt for WMD' Game Launched Using Public Documents 75

Posted by simoniker from the masquerade-for-the-00s dept.
prakslash writes "AP/The Tennessean reports that a Nashville entrepreneur, Shane Messer, has created an international treasure hunt game called 'Find Those Weapons: The Hunt for the Real WMD' by using actual public documents related to the American invasion of Iraq as clues. Messer's treasure for finding those imaginary weapons of mass destruction? A solid gold trophy, a bag of cash and a barrel of oil, according to the game's website." According to the rules, "If no one... claims the trophy by Election Day 2004.. [it] will be sent to George Bush."
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  • Oh Boy.... (Score:1, Flamebait)

    by Sevn ( 12012 )
    Stand back for the flood of neocon love. And who could blame them? Not that I'm exactly an angel here all the time, but this story is a blatant troll. Have you no shame?

    • Re:Oh Boy.... (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Angry Toad ( 314562 )
      Interesting question - *is* it a troll?

      It will create gigantic flames and whatnot, of course, towering into the Slashdot sky. However this is just a measure of the contentious nature of the question - to what extent did the US administration knowingly lie and/or exaggerate the Iraq threat in order to create the case for a war they had already decided upon?

      However much the ultra-right crazies may froth about it, it is a fair question.

      It was stated categorically by almost all the top figures

  • Same old story (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    What is this dude a former advertising exec from Acclaim?

  • Wow, nice story (Score:5, Funny)

    by Mike Hawk ( 687615 ) on Wednesday December 17, 2003 @02:43PM (#7747564) Journal
    Did I accidently type fark instead of slashdot this morning?
  • Only in america could someone do this and make money. If i had some i by it just to reward the guy. At least untill he patents the idea of hunting for WMD's that is.

  • "put me through law school" (Score:3, Interesting)

    by musikit ( 716987 ) on Wednesday December 17, 2003 @02:57PM (#7747679)
    i give this game a week before someone cracks it and figures out where the WMD are.

    what actually would be funny is if someone did finish the game and put the FAQ here [gamefaqs.com]

  • hmm (Score:2, Funny)

    by snubber1 ( 56537 )
    Shane Messer to George W. Bush: "Zing!"

    You sure showed him!

  • has nothing to do with real WMD. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by fireduck ( 197000 ) on Wednesday December 17, 2003 @03:12PM (#7747813)
    it's basically "I like puzzle / riddle games. A major current event involves finding weapons of mass destruction. So why not combine the two into a game I can sell to make money for law school."

    anything else is reading far too much into it.
    • Except for the fact that the guy purposely used the topic of WMDs just to gain publicity. If the goal was to find a treasure chest of gold, this never would have been reported on Slashdot. This guy is basicly tapping into the anti-U.S. government setiment thats going around right now to make a quick buck.

  • When can I claim the trophy? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Rayonic ( 462789 ) on Wednesday December 17, 2003 @03:30PM (#7747949) Homepage Journal
    Hey hey, I found a document proving the existence of WMD -- turns out they declared them to the UN! And that they had the ability to manufacture more! Check it out:

    http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/18130. pdf [state.gov]

    Anthrax, Botulinum, VX... Totally awesome, eh? Better yet, the agents and methods of production were never accounted for [un.int]. I'm going to contact this contest guy right now. That trophy is as good as mine.
    • Are those really WMDs? When it came to chemical weapons I assumed it was all about delivery systems, not the chemicals themselves. Also nukes. I don't think anyone was particularyl worried about a VX attack when their missiles couldn't reach into Turkey. I was under the assumption that it was nukes and long-range chemical weapons we were looking for. We've all known about the chemical weapons. They have not-so-secret labs in vans rolling around making the stuff, everyone's known about those. Not really the
      • "When it came to chemical weapons I assumed it was all about delivery systems, not the chemicals themselves."

        Then you're forgetting the anthrax attacks through the USPS in late '01. And then there were the scores killed and maimed by chlorine gas attacks decades before the V2...

        The delivery system is the easy part. Heck, the delivery system is generally something you can buy on the open market ("It's for our budding space program!" if you insist on rockets). International laws and such focus on the te
        • Yeah, see that's where I think you've left fact behind for a convenient fiction. The Anthrax "attacks", which killed approximately noone were done by local homegrown wackos.

          You cannot buy ICBMs and transglobal warhead delivery systems on the global market. The fear that the administration was engendering is the only one that would have been a real threat at all... that Iraq could, within a matter of hours (before a US strikeforce can react) could mobilize and launch a missile capable of reaching Europe. Wh

  • Why Bush? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by rocketfairy ( 16253 ) <nmt2002.columbia@edu> on Wednesday December 17, 2003 @03:56PM (#7748204) Homepage
    Why does Bush get the trophy? He can't seem to find any WMD's he isn't building himself [guardian.co.uk] or planning to launch. [counterpunch.org]

  • The key is probably (Score:3, Funny)

    by EvilSporkMan ( 648878 ) on Wednesday December 17, 2003 @04:03PM (#7748290)
    a copy of Conflict: Desert Storm or the sequel, given that you'll need about $50 to retrieve it. This would make good sense, as the real key is the explanation of why the place-holder is where it is and we don't want to have any chance of the place-holder's being moved or anyone seeing the guy putting it places.
  • I'm really disappointed that the website does not warn George Bush the game is not real. He's probably already ordered it and has poor post-op Powell already on the trail of the "WMDs".

    I just hope he doesn't use the game in the upcoming state of the union as more proof for their existence, although maybe it's more reliable than British intel? :)
  • I wonder why he is acting like it is a mystery where they are. We already know what happened to them. Thanks to the UN's grandstanding and BS, they had more than eight weeks to move them to the Bekaa Valley. And Syria and Lebanon have to be more than happy to have their hands on them.
  • I mean, they probably won't findthem in the game, much like the US can't find them in reality.

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