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ONE of the dubious joys of the Internet is how it speeds up the pace of life. Just two hours after we first heard of the decks of 55 playing cards handed out to US and British troops occupying the country to help them identify former Iraqi leaders, we got our first spam email offering one for sale.

The spammer, who insists the cards are made by the same company that supplied the US Army, bills them as “the one true collector’s item from Operation Iraqi Freedom”.

Actually, we thought that what American forces really wanted to collect was Saddam…

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