The news item about Kim Jong Il offering sanctuary to Saddam Hussein brings

to mind the old Jack Benny joke: “Your money or your life!” “Lemme think a

minute.” Something like this: GWB–”Okay, Saddam, the deal is, you can

cower in your bunker, waiting to become a target for our guided munitions,

and end up buried alive beneath several hundred tons of concrete rubble.

**OR**, you can spend the rest of your life in Pyongyang watching movies

with Kim Jong Il in his private screening room. What’s it to be?” Saddam:

“Mmmmmm…. How long do I have to think about this?”