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...Hussein was back in August, when stories circulated that a member of the Qatari royal family had ventured to Baghdad to see whether there was some way to avert a war by offering Saddam a way out--perhaps a plush retirement in a place like Saudi Arabia, where deposed despot Idi Amin enjoys fishing and playing his accordion. In Arab press accounts, Saddam was said to have angrily sent the envoy packing, and since then both sides have denied that any such overture ever happened. Who, indeed, would dare mention such a fate for the Butcher of Baghdad...
...growth (and likely did in the fourth quarter). It also provides the 68.3 percent of American households which own their home (also a new record, according to the Census Bureau) with a sense that there's somewhere they can put their money without some analyst, CEO or Middle Eastern despot making it disappear. Most significantly, consumer spending is 66 percent of GDP, and the purchase of a new home tends to have an "umbrella effect" on the homeowner's spending as he heads back out to stock it with a washer/dryer, a new big-screen TV, and maybe a swing...
...contends, would only hurt the regime - and Mugabe personally, since he is patron of the Zimbabwe Cricket Union. But shaking Hussain's hand won't win Mugabe glory with his people - cricket isn't especially popular in Zimbabwe - or with the international community, which has already branded him a despot. On the other hand, he could make political capital out of a boycott; he's already started, by painting the potential boycotters as racists determined to keep cricket white. That's a ridiculous charge, but some people will buy it. The last time race was an issue in cricket...
...addition, China National Petroleum Corporation is contracted to repair and develop sections of the Rumaila production zone, which was badly damaged during the 1991 Gulf War. These agreements, of course, might not necessarily be honored by a post-Hussein Iraqi government. The extermination of Baghdad’s totalitarian despot could thereby mean less revenue and less influence for energy companies in all three nations...
...Kind of Despot...