[ChadGore]

rofl . . that would be too funny.

[knak]

NO Ho Hung-sun

[cmsgop]

Could you imagine Kim and Saddam together for a night on the town?

[Steve Eisenberg]

While I am all for Saddam going to a true Saint Helena from which he cannot escape, this sounds more like Elba. No more Waterloos.

[Texas Eagle]

Woo hoo !

We could kill two birds with one Daisy Cutter !

[11th_VA]

Yeah, only if we get to fly him there ... ROFLOL !!!!

[MJY1288]

ROFLMAO, Kim Jong Il is really desperate for attention isn't he.

Kim Jong Il better worry about where he will find asylum, GITMO for the both of them sounds good to me

[Rain-maker]

Jong is just making empty gesture of asylum to call attention to himself and his tantrums.

Saddam: Rather Die Than Go Into Exile

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030226/15/389rz.html

[Sloth]

I know that Saddam & Kim are bloodthirsty, murdering dictators, but after seeing 1.) Saddam outlaw WMDs, and 2.) this article, I have to give them both credit for having a great sense of humor.

[syriacus]

My!!

[Torie]

Exile in North Korea strikes me as second best to an exile in hell.

[Howlin]

Oh, a twofer!

[whadizit]

ROTFLMAOWPIMP!! That is so funny. q,Don't 'ya just know Saddam cannot wait to move to N. Korea! It would be priceless!

N. Korea just cannot stand to stay out of the headlines. Whenever too much attention is given to Iraq, he blurts out something so we won't forget him.

[Young Werther]

What's that old saw?

"The inmates run the asylum!"

Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh!

Pass the strait jackets please!

Can I administer the electro shock, sans tongue protector!! Pass the insulin please!Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh!

[JennysCool]

Damn! Couldn't happen to a nicer fella!

[RobFromGa]

I knew Bush was good-- but I didn't think he was this good!

[HAL9000]

From Agence France-Press English language service -

Macau casino kingpin says NKorea offering Saddam Hussein asylum

A Macau casino mogul has conveyed an offer of asylum from North Korea to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Stanley Ho Hung-sun told the Sunday Morning Post that high-level North Korean officials have offered Saddam and his family sanctuary on a mountain in the isolated Stalinist state.

"We have to take any chance to have peace, especially if it comes in the shape of good news from the East," the paper quoted Ho as saying.

"They told me there really was a chance to prevent a war, and said that Saddam Hussein could step down two days before the US and Britain started to bomb and he could call democratic elections."

Ho had no further details of the North Korean offer and said he was unaware whether it had been formally conveyed to Baghdad, where UN weapons inspectors are combing presidential palaces and other official sites to find Iraq's alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.

No reason was given as to why Ho, who in 1999 opened a casino next to communist party headquarters in Pyongyang, was chosen as the conduit for the North Korean message.

The United Arab Emirates on Saturday at an Arab League summit in Egypt called for Saddam to step down to prevent a US-led war from devastating the region.

©2003 AFP All rights reserved.

[Norman Arbuthnot]

OK, eveyone get this . Stanley Ho, the man extending this offer to Saddam on behalf of the NK's has contributed large amounts of money to Bill Clinton and has well known to organized crime in Asia. See link below:

Mounties: Clinton Donor a Gangster

It is really remarkable how all of these individuals are connected.

[ET(end tyranny)]

Hey, maybe we'd get a two fer one...

[GoreFreeTN]

My copy of the SCMP doesnt mention anything about this. Could the French paper be full of cheap wine?