From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: UK Uproar/The Hee-Haws and the Anti-Wars
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:46:17 +0100



Old Goat wrote



> Dave, please advise:
> what in the name of Billy Blue Blazes
> is "the great British public"?


Well, it's not an expression I'm ever likely to use.
It's just possible I might have sometimes referred
to "public opinion". But  _never_ combined with
the words "Great" and "British". It was a quote
from the Schnews article which Heather forwarded.


> Other than that I buy your premise which may be a bit more likely than any
> of us would like to believe.  Adolf Busch was on telly tonight messing up
> the baseball schedule and preparing us to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Fuck
> 'im.  Let him and Saddam fight a duel


As a matter of fact the Iraqi government have officially suggested
just exactly this. A one-to-one settlement of differences between
Sadam and Bush. Well, to be strictly accurate, it was the Iraqi
Vice-President who suggested this. But he was speaking on
behalf of Sadam Hussein.

The Iraqi Vice-President said that George Dubbya Bush could
have the choice of weapons (but strictly  _personal_  weapons,
not mass-destruction). He also suggested that the duel should
take place at a neutral venue, and that he and the American
Vice-President should act as Seconds.

Mind you, this could be a win-win situation for the Iraqi V-P.
Either Sadam wins, in which case the Iraqi V-P is a member
of the government that defeated George Bush ; or Bush
wins, in which case the Iraqi V-P becomes President.


> If Toney Blear wants in then mebbe they can make it a 3-way, di?


But to keep the numbers even, there would have to be somebody
else on Sadam's side. Like a tag-team. I don't think the Iraqi
V-P  would be so keen on that idea. No, a one-to-one
between Bush and Sadam sounds like the best idea
to me, and we know that Sadam has already agreed.
So what I would like to know is, why is that wimp
George Dubbya Bush ducking the challenge ? Surely
the American media can't have suppressed the news
of this important policy initiative from Baghdad?


Dave Coull