This just in, from Ace Reporter D.J.Wu...
The Iraqi vice president offered an unusual suggestion Thursday for solving the U.S.-Iraq standoff: Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush should fight a duel to settle their differences and spare their people the ravages of war. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan would be the referee for the duel, which should be held on neutral territory, Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan told Associated Press Television Network in an interview. Ramadan, wearing a green uniform and a black beret, an orange cape and yellow and green golfing knickers made his remarks without giving any outward sign he was joking, although reporters who were present detected a note of irony in his voice.
Honor/shame culture meets the 21st century — again. Why, it seems only last year that the Taliban were suggesting zackly the same thing... |