What will happen to Saddam?

I can’t help but think there might be a certain relish in a Saddam vs Karl Rove Crackdown bout mud-wrestling thang. Karl’s been under physical scouring rehab, lately, probably had a better kept physique, so, no problem. Pay per view would be rightly lucrative.

Best man wins…

Since he committed suicide, we might entertain doubts as to whether he really meant it.

:eek: [reaches for the brain bleach]

He committed suicide to avoid hanging, which he saw as a fit death for a horse thief but not a Reichsmarschall. (Göring was not an aristocrat by birth but he was as pompous and class conscious as the Kaiser’s sons ever dared be and “the biggest social climber since Cinderella” [from Evita].) He said in his suicide letter that if they’d agreed to give him a firing squad he’d never have committed suicide, it was the rope he objected to.