When Saddam Hangs

[billyjoe]

When they hang Saddam next month what will happen ?

1. War will escalate as shiites and sunnis start killing each other and us at increasing rates.

2. War will slowly wind down as they realize we will impose our will eventually

3. Stock market will have a big one day rally followed by a sustained bull mkt.

4. Stock market will continue as it is and possibly decline as nothing really has changed and the war lingers on with no end in sight.

5. other scenarios

---------billyjoe

[Runner]

I say 1 and 4...

[skiracer]

Bush and Cheney decide they don't want to abdicate their thrones an install Martial Law because of threat of escalating terrorism, they call off next presidential election, then they lead USA into moral and fiscal bankruptcy, and finally end up leaving the country and their families to spend their remaining years together as gay life partners in the south of France scouring the countryside for Truffels where Bush is finally recognized as the real Alfred E. Neuman that the cover of Mad magazine was based on. This recognition in turn ignites his political resurrection in France and he becomes Prime Minister of France and France invades England and Germany with Halliburton as the prime contractor supplying all of the required logistical support.

[mrmarket]

Bush and Cheney decide they don't want to abdicate their thrones an install Martial Law because of threat of escalating terrorism, they call off next presidential election, then they lead USA into moral and fiscal bankruptcy, and finally end up leaving the country and their families to spend their remaining years together as gay life partners in the south of France scouring the countryside for Truffels where Bush is finally recognized as the real Alfred E. Neuman that the cover of Mad magazine was based on. This recognition in turn ignites his political resurrection in France and he becomes Prime Minister of France and France invades England and Germany with Halliburton as the prime contractor supplying all of the required logistical support.

That's hilarious...what is scary is that I can actually envision this occurring.

[skiracer]

That's hilarious...what is scary is that I can actually envision this occurring.

I sincerely believe they both think that they can shove anything down our throats they want to and that we are just a bunch of lemmings. So in my estimation anything is plausible with these two. Take a close look at Bush. I think he is Alfred E. Neuman and that Mad magazine is running the show. I mean the whole thing is like a bad comic book.

[Websman]

I sincerely believe they both think that they can shove anything down our throats they want to and that we are just a bunch of lemmings. So in my estimation anything is plausible with these two. Take a close look at Bush. I think he is Alfred E. Neuman and that Mad magazine is running the show. I mean the whole thing is like a bad comic book.

You speak the truth my friend...

[IIC]

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[billyjoe]

Ski,
Your idea is scarier than anything I could come up with , however, it makes my Scenario #5 even more plausible.

5. Saddam is shot down from the gallows by a shadowy Clint Eastwood like character and makes a spectacular getaway. This scene is repeated throughout the middle east as the bounty on his neck grows. By collecting his own ransom , Hussein funds a return to power.

----------billyjoe

[Tatnic]

.........where Bush is finally recognized as the real Alfred E. Neuman that the cover of Mad magazine was based on.

I knew I recognized that face!...that's probably why he was elected in the first place!

[skiracer]

I knew I recognized that face!...that's probably why he was elected in the first place!

The resemblance to Alfred E. Neuman is amazing, especially when he looks right into your eyes and gives you that little smirk. Maybe I've started a movement. Has anyone else seen the resemblance before these comments?.

[skiracer]

Ski,
Your idea is scarier than anything I could come up with , however, it makes my Scenario #5 even more plausible.

5. Saddam is shot down from the gallows by a shadowy Clint Eastwood like character and makes a spectacular getaway. This scene is repeated throughout the middle east as the bounty on his neck grows. By collecting his own ransom , Hussein funds a return to power.

----------billyjoe

Billyjoe,
I remember a western movie where two guys have a scam where one of them brings in the other one to collect the reward. After collecting the reward and they are about to hang the one guy the other one, from a distance, shoots the rope and the rides in and rescues the one being hanged and they make their escape only to do it again in another town. I can't seem to remember who the two actors were that played the two guys. Eastwood could have been one of them. Maybe Steve McQueen and someone else. Anyone remember a movie with that type of script?

[billyjoe]

Billyjoe,
I remember a western movie where two guys have a scam where one of them brings in the other one to collect the reward. After collecting the reward and they are about to hang the one guy the other one, from a distance, shoots the rope and the rides in and rescues the one being hanged and they make their escape only to do it again in another town. I can't seem to remember who the two actors were that played the two guys. Eastwood could have been one of them. Maybe Steve McQueen and someone else. Anyone remember a movie with that type of script?

Ski,
Wasn't it The Good (Eastwood) the Bad (Lee Van Cleef) and the Ugly (Eli Wallach) 1966

---------billyjoe

[skiracer]

Ski,
Wasn't it The Good (Eastwood) the Bad (Lee Van Cleef) and the Ugly (Eli Wallach) 1966

---------billyjoe

I thought that was the one at first but as many times as I've seen that movie I couldn't remember the beginning of it before Eastwood and Wallach become estranged from one another looking for the gold. You could be right but I'm not sure. I know in the last scene Eastwood doesn't let Wallach hang and shoots the rope after everything Wallach has done to him and visa versa. Doesn't Wallach get up afterwards and start screaming what he used to call Eastwood, "Blondie", as Eastwood rides off into the horizon. Another great movie.

[IIC]

I thought that was the one at first but as many times as I've seen that movie I couldn't remember the beginning of it before Eastwood and Wallach become estranged from one another looking for the gold. You could be right but I'm not sure. I know in the last scene Eastwood doesn't let Wallach hang and shoots the rope after everything Wallach has done to him and visa versa. Doesn't Wallach get up afterwards and start screaming what he used to call Eastwood, "Blondie", as Eastwood rides off into the horizon. Another great movie.

This probably belongs on Billy's Quote Thread...But I always say..."Movies are for people without real lives"...And you can feel free to quote me on that...IIC

[mrmarket]

I sincerely believe they both think that they can shove anything down our throats they want to and that we are just a bunch of lemmings. So in my estimation anything is plausible with these two. Take a close look at Bush. I think he is Alfred E. Neuman and that Mad magazine is running the show. I mean the whole thing is like a bad comic book.

I usually lean to the right, politically. However these two guys really leave me scratching my head. What boggles my mind is how Cheney had the audacity to assign Halliburton to a no bid contract to cover all of the "services" in Iraq. I thought that Halliburton was in the oil drilling business?

Wouldn't one think that just the appearance of impropriety of assigning Halliburton as a contractor would have been enough to make them use a different contractor? It's just the "tough shit, we're in power, we can do whatever we want" attitude that makes me wonder about what REALLY is going on in Washington these days.

By the way, I was saddened to hear of the passing of Gerald Ford. He was one of the good guys.