The following was on the AP wire this morning ...
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Iraqi Official Suggests a Duel
Thu Oct 3, 9:25 AM ET
By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - An Iraqi vice president offered a unique solution to the U.S.-Iraq standoff: a duel between George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein.
Taha Yassin Ramadan said the duel could be held at a neutral site and with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as the referee.
Ramadan, wearing a green uniform and a black beret, made his remarks without giving any outward sign that he was joking although reporters who were present detected a note of irony in his voice.
"A president against a president and vice president against a vice president and a duel takes place, if they are serious, and in this way we are saving the American and the Iraqi people," Ramadan told the Associated Press Television Network.
Iraq has two vice presidents, and Ramadan did not say whether he or Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf would take on ****** Cheney
