Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Saddam Trial Moved to Modesto
Posted on January 31, 2004 in Humor?
Think the world has become too strange to be true? Recent decisions and utterances coming from the Bush-occupied White House have been so strange that when a chatter on Undernet #political channel broke this story, the mass of us yawned and said “Oh really? Hmmm. Maybe next week he’ll invite Michael Jackson to the East Room to play with some kids from inner city Washington D.C.”:
Despite mounting protests from Iraqi Shiites demanding that the U.S. turn over Saddam Hussein to them for trial, interim administrator Paul Bremer III announced today that the former Iraqi dictator would be put on trial this spring in Modesto, California.
“We needed to find a place where jurors were likely to give Saddam a fair trial,” Mr. Bremer explained to reporters. “In Modesto, almost no one has heard of Saddam because the only news they have been getting for the last year has been about Scott Peterson.”
In contrast with the Shiites, who took to the streets to protest the decision, Modesto residents were jubilant at the prospect of hosting the high-profile trial, especially after losing the Peterson trial to San Mateo County.
In case you haven’t figured it out by now, we were yanked by an excerpt from the Borowitz Report.
Thanks to tookish for this.
