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Every week, the esteemed panel of judges at WackyIraqi.com awards its coveted Finger of the Week award. The FOW is given to political leaders, celebrities, companies, websites, or just everyday folks who desperately deserve a big middle finger. Nominations for the FOW Award can be submitted to fow@wackyiraqi.com, though the ultimately selection process is shrouded in extreme secrecy.
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Date: 06.03.2002
Recipient: The Discovery Channel
Award Winning Work: Producing a new show called "The Pet Psychic", as if all the human Psychic bullshit isn't enough. As the ads say, "pets don't lie," but people are happy to do it for them.
Prior Awards: 1999, Best Documentary: The Mysterious World of Toe Jam
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Date: 05.02.2002
Recipient: Robert "Baretta" Blake
Award Winning Work: For, uh, blowing away his wife. Do you need anything else?
Prior Awards: 2002, NRA Man of the Year
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Date: 04.19.2002
Recipient: The United States of America
Award Winning Work: Killing four Canadian soldiers and injuring six others on training exercises in Afghanistan.
Related Link: Canada Seeks Answers for Deaths in Afghanistan
Prior Awards: 1991, Best Special Effects: "Iraq! The Musical"
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Date: 04.12.2002
Recipient: Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Award Winning Work: Using the US war on terrorism as an excuse to bulldoze Palestinian homes.
Related Link: Netanyahu likens U.S. war to Israel's campaign
Prior Awards: 1998, Man of the Year, Arab Killer Magazine™
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Date: 04.05.2002
Recipient: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
Award Winning Work: Ignoring the United Nations, the United States, and the European Union in rolling hundreds of tanks into Palestinian neighborhoods.
Prior Awards: 2001, Finger of the Week Lifetime Achievement Award
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Date: 01.24.2002
Recipient: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
Award Winning Work: Flirting with the Geneva Convention on the world stage. Diluting world sympathy and support for the United States.
Prior Awards: 2001, Weirdest Smile in the Pentagon
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Date: 01.18.2002
Recipient: America Online
Award Winning Work: Sending one of their stupid signup CDs to my PO Box, causing me to take time off work to pick it up (thinking it was an important package) since their pointless DVD snap case didn't fit in my box.
Prior Awards: 1995, World's Largest Retard Magnet
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Date: 01.04.2002 & 01.11.2002
Recipient: "American" Airlines
Award Winning Work: Refusing passage to a Secret Service agent on his way to protect the president because he's an Arab-American. After all, what could be more American than racial discrimination?
Related Link: Witnesses: Secret Service agent didn't act angry
Prior Awards: 1998, Best food when compared to eating warm horse shit
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December 2001
The FOW Awards are currently on hiatus for the holiday season. Default fingers go to shopping malls, people in huge SUVs driving to shopping malls, and the 10 mile radii of jammed freeways, roads and side streets around shopping malls.
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Date: 11.30.2001
Recipient: George W. Bush, President of the United States of America
Award Winning Work: Insisting on military tribunals for trying terrorism suspects over civilian courts. Lowering the US to the level of third-world dictatorships with secret arrests and confidential courts.
Prior Awards: 1975, Harvard University, Most Likely to Bogart all the Blow
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Date: 11.16.2001
Recipient: Pat Robertson and the 700 Club
Award Winning Work: Condemning Harry Potter Books as "a dangerous introduction to the occult." Being a bible-thumping prick.
Related Link: http://www.700club.com/spirituallife/harrypotter/
Prior Awards: 1992, First Place, The Advocate: Best Buns Competition
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Date: 11.09.2001
Recipient: Hurricane Michelle
Award Winning Work: Killing five Cubans and destroying countless homes. Competing with the US government in destroying Cuban lives.
Prior Awards: 1999, Best Breeze in a Caribbean country
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Date: 11.2002.2001
Recipient:The New York Yankees
Award Winning Work: Being overpaid, arrogant pricks. Buying countless championships.
Related Link: Yankees are the Yankees, and they'll win in six
Prior Awards: Most Overrated Team of the Century
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Date: 10.19.2001
Recipient: Bacillus Anthracis (Anthrax)
Award Winning Work: Killing a guy in Florida. Feeding the paranoia of 260 million hypochondriacs.
Related Link: CNN.com - The anthrax investigation
Prior Awards: 1642, Most Mysterious Evil Spirit
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Date: 10.12.2001
Recipient: Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
Award Winning Work: Equating Arabs with Nazis, and the struggle for a free Palestine with the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Being a warmongering hawk. Pissing on a peace process.
Related Link: CNN.com - Sharon warns U.S. not to 'appease' Arabs
Prior Awards: 1972, Best Murderer in a Mideast War
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Date: 10.05.2001
Recipient: Ari Fleischer, White House Press Secretary
Award Winning Work: Warning Americans to "watch what you say and do" in response to comments made by comedian Bill Maher. Forgetting who he works for.
Related Link: White House keeps heat on Bill Maher
Prior Awards: 2000, 2nd Place: Baldest Man in the Whitehouse
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