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Michael Ubaldi, July 30, 2003.
 

(I couldn't resist. Put on your schmaltz and chuckle. I hear you grinning from over here!)

JOKER: I tell you, Saddam is churning out records like early-career Elvis. The regional cable networks are spinning him like he's bribing them, helping his bid to glom a smash hit with the Arab world.

STRAIGHT MAN: Well, what's he saying?

JOKER: ...Singing. Thought you'd never ask, brother -

(I'm still floored as to why, if he survived the military campaign with his sons, Saddam Hussein so poorly executed his prepared strategies. He might as well have been incapacitated.)

UPDATE: It just occurred to me - what if the King loads up this webpage? What'll he say? Of course, he's still alive and in hiding, right? Right?