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To: stockman_scott who wrote (62272)	12/18/2002 7:24:52 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 281500

Reading John J. Lumpkin's AP 12/18/02 Iraq's "scorched earth" article (cited in the post to which I'm responding) made me think I was watching Lord of the Rings all over again. My gosh, even though Saddam is no Frodo and has no real-life access to Gandolf, is he really sporting real live oily orcs and greasy treelike bogeymen!?! Does his alchemey really have any puff? Will we find Saddam sheepishly attempting to hide amongst elven folk? Geeh-wiz, I think common sense tells anyone, including those within the Iraqi military, Saddam himself even, that there just ain't no way anyone or anything's gonna stop a U.S. equipped and led military invasion into the land where OPEC got formed. In this absurd world of fantasy vs. reality me thinks the best way to solve this is to lock Bush and Saddam in a room full of ale and leave them from dusk until dawn. The next day, in the presumption they both have a capability for moving on into the next day, I next recommend we put the both of 'em in a banquet hall not only full of ale, but also full of good musicians and poor folk from every continent, again from dusk till dawn. Again, in the presumption that all would be standing and capable the next day, we just might end up seeing a better world in the days ahead. Crazy as it seems, this actually might work. Problem is, it could never happen 'cause the media wouldn't allow it--lol! In a more realistic thought, I'd suspect the Iraqi forces wouldn't put up much, if any, resistance. Rather they'd likely mount a condition of revolutionary activity in the aftermath of a successful U.S. campaign, so as to never let the U.S. comfortably succeed in what it is attempting to accomplish.