I've just found an original copy of HG Well's War of the Worlds.. apparently he was a seer, and predicted the very following thing to happen: "Across the Gulf of the Atlantic, President Bush regarded the nation of Iraq with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, drew his plans against them." very compelling opening!
wait so wqas the movie in the 50's made before the originasl book? i mean it had to have been.... and wait, were talking baout the alien one right? im sort of confused.
It is a 'joke'... The next couple of lines go: He then invaded iraq with a rag tag bunch of poor idiots (aka cannon fodder) and let them kill thousands of people.