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October 3, 2002, 09:40 AM | #1 |
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Iraqi VP suggests duel between Saddam and GW!
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Iraqi Official Suggests a Duel Thu Oct 3, 9:25 AM ET By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - An Iraqi vice president offered a unique solution to the U.S.-Iraq standoff: a duel between George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein. Taha Yassin Ramadan said the duel could be held at a neutral site and with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as the referee. Ramadan, wearing a green uniform and a black beret, made his remarks without giving any outward sign that he was joking although reporters who were present detected a note of irony in his voice. "A president against a president and vice president against a vice president and a duel takes place, if they are serious, and in this way we are saving the American and the Iraqi people," Ramadan told the Associated Press Television Network. Iraq has two vice presidents, and Ramadan did not say whether he or Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf would take on Dick Cheney. Ramadan also said that his government was not concerned by U.S. lawmakers' support of a congressional resolution that would authorize President Bush to use military force against Iraq. "We pay no attention to this issue," he said, adding that approving such a resolution "makes no difference" to Iraq. Ramadan criticized U.S. efforts to delay the return of U.N. weapons inspectors to Iraq until the Security Council adopts tougher measures that would give the inspectors broad new powers to hunt for weapons of mass destruction and provide them with military backing. He said such efforts were aimed at "hampering the inspection process." "They (the Americans) were surprised by the agreement reached by Iraq and the United Nations. So their reaction was unbalanced," he said, referring to the deal in Vienna on Tuesday between Iraq and chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix. Under the agreement, Iraq agreed to an unconditional return of the inspectors under the existing U.N. Security Council resolutions and a 1998 agreement that put the so-called presidential sites — including Saddam's palaces — off-limits to surprise visits. At the United Nations, the United States was pursuing a tough resolution that would end the exemption for those sites, give Iraq 30 days to compile an "accurate, full and complete" inventory of all aspects of its weapons programs — and provide U.N. inspectors military backing to carry out their search. But the three other veto-wielding members of the Security Council — Russia, China and France — have said they are not ready to authorize force before inspectors have time to test Iraq's willingness to comply. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._mi_ea/iraq_us
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October 3, 2002, 09:42 AM | #2 |
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Sure! We accept! Bush with a M4 on full auto and Saddam with a derringer at 20 paces!!!
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October 3, 2002, 09:50 AM | #3 |
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Make it a Pay-Per-View event!
It would probally go a long way towards paying off the national debt. Although I have a feeling Saddam handles weapons just a little bit more often than GWB.
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October 3, 2002, 10:14 AM | #4 |
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As a college youth facing the draft for Vietnam, I thought Ho Chi Minh and Lyndon Johnson should be put into the same room. The war would be settled in favor of whoever emerged.
I was young, stupid, and naive then. Now I'm just stupid, but not to the degree of this piece of talking Iraqi pork suasage.... |
October 3, 2002, 10:26 AM | #5 |
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How would they know if it was the real Saddam? For security reasons, he has several "doubles". I heard a report on Fox the other day that said a group of doctors and scientists think there are at least 4 Saddam look alikes from studying the photos out of Iraq.
You would think the CIA or Mossad could get this guy. Maybe they should contract with one of the mob families to "wack" him! |
October 3, 2002, 10:28 AM | #6 |
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Ummm...
Cheney grew up in Wyoming. What is that dumbass Iraqi thinking?
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October 3, 2002, 10:45 AM | #7 |
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Accepted. But, Bush should send in a second, Gore and if we lose, we'll ask for a rematch. Do you think Saddam would might if we send a woman?
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October 3, 2002, 10:51 AM | #8 |
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As the challenged, doesn't Bush have the right to choose weapons under "Queensbury?"
If so, given his excellent physical condition and the condition of Saddam, he should choose switchblades, ball bats, or hand axes at close quarters. Bayonets might even work. In close quarters, Bush should be able to outlast the overweight out-of-shape Iraqi dictator with no sweat.
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October 3, 2002, 11:17 AM | #9 |
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Choice of weapons, eh?
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October 3, 2002, 12:02 PM | #10 |
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What is this Iraqi nimrod thinking.
We have already challenged them to a duel. If they choose chem/bio we choose nukes in which case they have already lost. Saddam is toast, maybe now, maybe later, but toast all the same. THIS time he (Saddam) WILL come out of the battle dead.
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We're OK as long as the duel is a drinking contest like the one in "Raiders of the Lost Ark". W can't lose.
Or mebbe sofl-boiled egg eating a 'la "Cool Hand Luke". db
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Hand grenades at 5 paces inside a locked room would be my vote.
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I think a barrage of letters to the White House in support of this idea is in order.
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October 3, 2002, 02:48 PM | #15 |
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"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Maybe we could pass Rob Leatham off as W...
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October 3, 2002, 05:53 PM | #17 |
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Bob Munden or Jerry Miculek against anyone they can find.
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October 3, 2002, 06:02 PM | #18 |
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C'mon guys. No heavy or modern weaponry please. Let's keep this affair honorable and mano y mano.
Dubya stays home and sends his second, Gwhore. Who cares if we lose the first couple of dozen rounds?
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.50 BMG at 10 paces, referee must stand in the middle.
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My money is on W.
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October 3, 2002, 08:47 PM | #21 |
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I don't know about this one. IIRC, Saddam uses a CZ-550 (full stock version), probably in 7x57 Mauser. He may be a wild-eyed power-hungry dictator, but he's got good taste in rifles!
The REAL question is, what to arm Bush with? I say a Winchester '95 in .30'06.
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Lew Rockwell Says...
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Lew Rockwell is a very smart man.
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Can we choose GE mini-guns and send Jesse Ventura to represent us?
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