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The Shrub has given Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave Iraq.
The obvious question is, even if he wanted to, where would he go.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude suggested Paris, and my first thought was a dacha on the Black Sea.
A few more minutes of odd suggestions--Belgium? The Philippines?--and it suddenly hit me who/what country could do this, and pull it off, with Hussein believing he'd be safe, and the US afraid to touch him: the Pope. The Vatican City is tiny, but it is sovereign; the Pope has called for peace, repeatedly; and how much harm could anyone do in a spare apartment in the Vatican?
The obvious question is, even if he wanted to, where would he go.
cattitude suggested Paris, and my first thought was a dacha on the Black Sea.A few more minutes of odd suggestions--Belgium? The Philippines?--and it suddenly hit me who/what country could do this, and pull it off, with Hussein believing he'd be safe, and the US afraid to touch him: the Pope. The Vatican City is tiny, but it is sovereign; the Pope has called for peace, repeatedly; and how much harm could anyone do in a spare apartment in the Vatican?