More weird speculation

[redbird]

The Shrub has given Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave Iraq.

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?

Comments

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Shrub did say that US troops would be entering Iraq regardless. So it doesn't matter if they face a second banana or Hussein himself. We're goin' in. This is a face-saving offer; he doesn't expect it to be accepted.

I like the suggestion on PRI Radio's "Marketplace" that we just *buy* Iraq. It'd cost just as much as we're planning to spend on the war, after all.

[stealthpup.livejournal.com]

"face-saving", my ass. It's a thinly-veiled CYA that he can point to and claim that, hey, we made a gesture toward peace. Feh.