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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?
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exile for saddam
I am ashamed to have let things come to a pass where this can be done in my name.
*nod*. me too. even though my country of birth and my country of residence are not involved in actual fighting and bomb dropping, neither have they put their feet down terribly firmly. wrist slapping works neither with nasty dictators nor with presidents who have delusions of grandeur.