[Rhodes22-list] Joke/Politics Saddam Shocker

[Bill Effros]

  BUSH: SADDAM MUST SHARE THE BLAME FOR KATRINA


    President Rips Iraqi Madman for Distracting Federal Government


Just two days after taking responsibility for failures of the Federal 
government's response in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, President 
George W. Bush modified that position somewhat, telling reporters that 
former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein "should share at least some of the 
blame" for those failures.

"When the Federal government fails to live up to its responsibilities to 
the American people, the finger of blame should be pointed at one 
person,"  Mr.Bush told reporters in the White House Rose Garden.  "And 
that person is Saddam Hussein."

After reporters appeared startled and taken aback by the president's 
remark, Mr. Bush said that he could "connect the dots" between the Iraqi 
madman and the government's poor emergency response after the 
devastating hurricane.

"For years, Saddam Hussein taunted us into believing that he had weapons 
of mass destruction, for one reason and one reason alone," Mr. Bush 
said.  "To distract us from preparing for hurricanes."

Adding that "his evil knows no bounds," Mr. Bush told reporters, "Now 
that Saddam Hussein is in the custody of the Iraqi government, he will 
never threaten the United States of America with his hurricanes again."

The president also said that he was prepared to take further actions to 
protect the United States from hurricanes, such as invading Syria.

Reached at his prison cell in Baghdad, Mr. Hussein said that he was 
"disappointed" by the president's comments, adding, "Now is not the time 
to play the blame game."

Elsewhere, returning to Washington after his trip to the Gulf region, 
Vice President Dick Cheney said that Hurricane Katrina did little or no 
damage to the nation's tax cuts.   
 

 From Andy Borowitz


Bill Effros