# Alternative to War

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternative-to-war/162098>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 17, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternative-to-war/162098 "2003-03-17T21:08:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mogiaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mogiaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mogiaw)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternative-to-war/162098/1 "2003-03-17T21:08:01Z")

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I don’t know if there’s any similar threads to this but anyway…

How about to solve this problem in Iraq, we put Mr. Bush and Mr. Hussein in an arena and let them fight to the death (allow perhaps knives, machetes etc.). If all goes well they’ll kill each other, but if Bush wins he gets the Iraqi oilfields and if Hussein wins he gets the Texas Oilfields. It makes too much sense really it does.

Mogiaw 😃

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**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternative-to-war/162098/2 "2003-03-17T23:07:23Z")

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[ul]:eek: [sup] **Hell, give him all of Texas!** [/sup][sub]and all the oil wells in Ireland[/sub][/ul]

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**Author:** ![mogiaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mogiaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mogiaw)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternative-to-war/162098/3 "2003-03-17T23:38:56Z")

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hey wait, IReland’s Neutral!

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**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternative-to-war/162098/4 "2003-03-18T01:34:34Z")

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Some of the people in my P.E. class have got it all figured out. Because, you see, we can just walk right into Iraq, grab Saddam, and walk right out with him, without drawing attention to ourselves. :dubious: We can also nuke all of Iraq, but not lose any oil because we can get it all out first. We can also bomb them without _any_ problematic results. :rolleyes:

The ignorance of some people…:smack: