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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rogwar on October 03, 2002, 10:19:55 AM
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This would certainly make history interesting. I wonder about the dueling weapons? Saddam has much more direct experience in killing so my money would have to go on Mr. Mustache.
How about sledgehammers in 5' of water?
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 ( news - web sites).
Taha Yassin Ramadan said the duel could be held at a neutral site and with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan ( news - web sites) 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 Dick Cheney ( news - web sites).
Ramadan also said that his government was not concerned by U.S. lawmakers' support of a congressional resolution that would authorize President Bush ( news - web sites) to use military force against Iraq.
"We pay no attention to this issue," he said, adding that approving such a resolution "makes no difference" to Iraq.
Ramadan criticized U.S. efforts to delay the return of U.N. weapons inspectors to Iraq until the Security Council adopts tougher measures that would give the inspectors broad new powers to hunt for weapons of mass destruction and provide them with military backing.
He said such efforts were aimed at "hampering the inspection process."
"They (the Americans) were surprised by the agreement reached by Iraq and the United Nations ( news - web sites). So their reaction was unbalanced," he said, referring to the deal in Vienna on Tuesday between Iraq and chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix.
Under the agreement, Iraq agreed to an unconditional return of the inspectors under the existing U.N. Security Council resolutions and a 1998 agreement that put the so-called presidential sites — including Saddam's palaces — off-limits to surprise visits.
At the United Nations, the United States was pursuing a tough resolution that would end the exemption for those sites, give Iraq 30 days to compile an "accurate, full and complete" inventory of all aspects of its weapons programs — and provide U.N. inspectors military backing to carry out their search.
But the three other veto-wielding members of the Security Council — Russia, China and France — have said they are not ready to authorize force before inspectors have time to test Iraq's willingness to comply.
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My money would go on Bush....unless the contest was a spelling bee.
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How about George's military against Saddam's?
If I had any artistic talent I'd draw a cartoon of an ant challenging to a duel the shoe coming down about to squash it.
AKIron (messing around with account)
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Hell, I could take Bush. Remember this guy got his bellybutton handed to him by a peanut. ;)
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Originally posted by Thrawn
Hell, I could take Bush. Remember this guy got his bellybutton handed to him by a peanut. ;)
It was a pretzel!
Another typical liberal lie :rolleyes: :p
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My money would be on Hussein. But he'd have to be careful, Bush uses strategery.
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Saddam would kick his ass.
You can't be evil incarnate and a popsicle...
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There's an old saying in Iraq: Duel me once, shame on ................. shame on you. Duel me ................you can't get dueled again.
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I think they should put them both on a deserted island and let them settle it "Kirk vs Gorn" style.
Have cameras all over the place and charge pay per view on Fox.
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Saddam would own Bush in a duel.
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Yea what if it was 2v2 and Bush had Drex on his team, ever think of that? :D
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Nah, you guys have it all wrong. Seriously.
Sadaam is older, and definitely has lived a rougher life.
Like him or not, the Pres. is in pretty damn good shape. Runs 3-4 a day (sub 8:00/mile, which isn't bad at all for someone his age) and also hits the PT pretty well. Remember he was a fighter pilot, has to have some athletic genes in him.
I say we take the duel - in a neutral country. But we drag out the duel date for like 2 months, all the while having the Pres. train in secret with the best fencer we can find. Then we'll spike Sadaam's water with AN before the duel.
I'll tell you all one thing I would have loved to see the Vega$ handicappers in action if the duel was accepted. :)
Mike/wulfie
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Put Bush in an F-15 and Saddam in a MiG, guns only. Bush would win that one :)
J_A_B
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there ya go. but they'd have to fly the exact same planes. as the challenged party Bush would get to choose type of weapon, so he could go with planes if he wanted to. I'd rather see 'm go up in some vintage birds though (say nothing newer than 60 years old)
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c'mon now.......... you can't beat a Texan in a duel!
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Originally posted by wulfie
Nah, you guys have it all wrong. Seriously.
Sadaam is older, and definitely has lived a rougher life.
Like him or not, the Pres. is in pretty damn good shape. Runs 3-4 a day (sub 8:00/mile, which isn't bad at all for someone his age) and also hits the PT pretty well. Remember he was a fighter pilot, has to have some athletic genes in him.
I say we take the duel - in a neutral country. But we drag out the duel date for like 2 months, all the while having the Pres. train in secret with the best fencer we can find. Then we'll spike Sadaam's water with AN before the duel.
I'll tell you all one thing I would have loved to see the Vega$ handicappers in action if the duel was accepted. :)
Mike/wulfie
Perhaps Bush is in better shape..but "duels" are not fought generally with fists..usually they involve weapons. This certainly gives Sadaam the edge...he has personally exectuted political opponents in the past so I would imagine he is fairly handy with a gun...he didn't miss after-all.
Bush may be a Texan..but his upbringing suggests that he was too busy suckling his silver spoon to be bothered with playing with guns.
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Maybe Bush should choose electric chairs ar gas-chambers or whatever they use in Texas for executing people as his weapon.
There he has more knowledge than mad Saddam.
Or a AH-game while both are sitting on electrec chairs. The looser gets 20000 V :D :D :D
PS: Its good that Bush can choose the weapon - otherwise Saddam could choose a Pretzel and would win easily again Bush :D