This whole Iraqi playing cards thing really creeps me out. It strikes me as grotesquely clichéd, the product of too many movies that rely on heavy-handed symbolism to make the point that there's evil in the world, folks, evil. But is it the evil of human greed and corruption—Joe Pesci in Vegas evil? Or is there an element of the supernatural at work? Like, would these be tarot cards if distributing tarot cards wouldn't cause god-fearing Americans everywhere to accuse the US military of being a bunch of goddamn satan-worshippers, with their fortune-telling, their Harry Potter books, and their WB network? Nope. Tarot won't do, so Texas Hold 'Em it is.