Offering duel citizenship and permanent employment for the Iraqi weapons inspectors sure would be a coup forre.
Interestingly, LindyBill was a bit taken aback from the offbeat nature of Saddam's government entertaining a Sean Penn visit. Rather than Saddam's propaganda machine--not unlike the one the U.S. has--distorting the actual humanitarian reasons for Penn's visit, as they did, perhaps the Iraqi regime should be behaving in an entirely different mannner.
You see, Saddam is in an extremely unique position what with the watchdog umbrella of the United Naitons and all. Me thinks he should take center stage this opportunity, enhanced by his nation's vast oil reserves, and invite philsophers from every continent to become citizens of Iraq in the express purpose of creating the best utopian society the planet could ever offer.
No question about it: The best way to beat Bush is to turn Iraq into a better society, one where the candidate who actually gets the most votes in a clean election really does win (interestingly, unlike both Saddam and Bush); a society where people of all races and religions live in harmony, each in respect for the other; a society where education and culture are understood and wanted; a society where 10 percent of the people don't control 90 percent of the wealth; a society where corporate corruption simply doesn't exist; a society free of a drug war forced upon its people; a society where healthcare is available for all and where homeless do not exist; a society ... well!
Indeed, the best way for Saddam to beat Bush is to be better than Bush. Of course, he'd have to resign in order to do that. Now that I think about it, perhaps Bush should as well.
[Note to all: Please do forgive some of my tongue in cheek posting. There's so much anguish to go around, sometimes it makes sense to write things that come out of the humor mill.] |
