Re: [A-List] Saddam and North Korea

["Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> A major Hong Kong newspaper in the Chinese language just reported
that
> Hong Kong/Macau gambling tycoon, Stanley Ho, told the press that a
North
> Korean official of ambassadorial rank told me that North Korea would
> offer Saddam asylum at the last minute to prevent a war.  Ho said his
> contacts of Western, British and US, diplomats considered such
> development possible.  Ho insists that there will be no war over
Iraq.
>  Ho seldom loses a bet.  North Korea has developed close contacts in
> Macau and Hong Kong.
>
> Henry C.K. Liu

Let's assume this is all correct. Is it good news?

1) GW Bush and his junta need a war, and they plan to conquer Iraq as
not the war, but the first theatre of war.
2) we now have hundreds of thousands of troops amassed in the Middle
East.
3) you don't mobilise the troops and then not use them.
4) If Saddam jumped into exile, we would then have the world's most
dangerous and powerful army ever moving into Iraq without a fight.

5) this reminds me of a joke told by Canadian comedian Rick Mercer a
couple of years back. The United States is like a big asshole stumbling
out of the bar at last call, realised he's not getting any for the
night, and is now looking for some little pip squeak to beat up and
prove his manli-ness to. The danger is that we are all in the parking
lot.

Further to that joke, is that now the drunk guy has a reason and a plan
that requires his drunken rage. We have to be the Designated Drivers,
and but quick.

--
Macdonald Stainsby,
External Relations Co-ordinator,
Douglas Students Union.
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