Yes, I'm going to stop now.

The water in your shower must have something weird in it.  Or you are the inventor of the proverb " Do something unexpected and the impossible becomes possible".


The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

By George - A plan!!!!!

4. shouldn't be such a problem. They could recycle Saddam. At this point he will look almost like a saint.

now you're talking!

you've got to look at the bright side.

sorry in advance about collateral damage, omelettes etc.

i'm sure you feel so nice and clean after that shower...

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

I think you forgot between 4 and 5:

4-1. That strong Iraqi leader launches a pre-emptive attack on Iran using the technology and weapons openly supplied by the west who, concerned about the Islamic fundamentalism, decided to trust the leader to check Shia domination. That leader secretly uses chemical, bio and whatever.

4-2. However, Iran's revolutionary guards turned out to be more resilient than the West thought. They even managed to occupy Basra at enormous cost.

4-3. The West keeps supplying ammunition to Iraq, hoping that the Iranian people will rise up against their some day, or else both the Iraqi leader and the Iranian leader fall....

(Now forget 5 and 6.)

I will become a patissier, God willing.

1. A plane of the new Iraqi Airforce shot down in Iran after loosing his way because of poor navigation.

2. The US retaliates with bombs.

3. The Chinese send fighter-jets to Iran to protect their investments in the oil production.

4. The Russians laughing their ass of.

5. Saddam escapes and finds shelter in the cave of Osama where they watch TV, smoking a joint.

6. After the nuclear clouds are gone, only Europe escapes the huge energy shortfall , thanks to Jeromes windmills.

7. The Worldconference of The Cave  (Osama, Saddam, Sarkozi and Putin) sets the rules for the new worldorder.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

You would not see a cunning plan even if it came in a gorilla custome wearing a huge sign the size of High Park reading "I am a cunning plan" :)

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

Careful, Colman.  If you keep talking like this, the GOP might nominate you in 2008.  Just think!  AHHnold, der Gropen Führer, could be your VP.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

It's a bit early to start with the whiskey, isn't it?

the potato? There has to be a potato in a plan like this.

I don't know. It's generally depressing and an exercise in pointlessness and futility trying to deal with people who don't get that 'reality based' means 'reality is bigger than you are, only an idiot would pick a fight with it, there's a story about someone called King Canute that you really ought to pay attention to, and now would be a really good time to stop all those recreational pharmaceuticals you seem to be taking.'

Why is it that people who are poor and crazy are locked up, while people who are rich and crazy always seem to end up running countries? (Into the ground.)

But Colman, does this mean have reached the tipping point  for Peak Turnips?

Eats cheroots and leaves.

But Colman, disease and deprivation stalk Iraq like two giant stalking things!

Damn, one measly civil war in the entire history of Iraq and we're on the wrong bloody side!

Another plan:

U.S. Democrats, after a campaign based on an aggressive security posture, win control of both houses of Congress in 2006, and the Presidency in 2008. America decides that her efforts at international relations are both unappreciated and expensive, and retreats into a Fortress America isolationism even stronger than that that of the 1920s and 30s.

This is not at all a stretch. The Dubai Port foo-rah being a strong indicator.