Al-Jazeera News Service
October 2002
U.S. Iraq War Put on Back Burner;
Saddam Hurt, Angry
Baghdad, IQ | In a communication to Iraq's newly-reelected leader, the U.S. President has informed Saddam Hussein that war is no longer necessary to distract American voters from important national issues before the upcoming election.
In his letter, the callous leader of the Great Evil Empire George W. Bush yet again insulted the Islamic world with his arrogance.
"Sorry about the short notice," Bush wrote, "but I got to put our date on hold. With any luck, this sniperboy deal should keep knocking everything off the front page for the next few weeks. And I got a ton of fund raising to tend to. So anyway, happy halloween and I'll call you sometime."
Saddam confided to reporters, "Bush has no idea how much effort goes into an occasion like this." Obviously trying to conceal his pain, Saddam continued. "I've been cleaning up the Presidential Palaces, rearranged my entire schedule just for him. I even bought a new outfit. And then he does this to me. In the name of Allah, I know men who give their eleventh wives more consideration."
Saddam added, "He is a war tease, just like his old man. I have a good mind to fire a scud at Israel just to get his attention." But he later apologized for this remark, saying he hadn't been sleeping very well lately.
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