War-related job losses: Hans Blix took early retirement from his job as chief UN weapons inspector for Iraq.
"I think we were given a bit too short time," Blix said. "A few more months would have been useful."Useful for Saddam to be sure, which is why we had to go in there. And that brings us to the next guy who lost his job: Musahim Saab al-Tikriti, Saddam's cousin and commander of Iraqi air defense, who has not done a very good job of defending Iraqi air space. Taking over this thankless job is Gen. Shahin Yasin Muhammad al-Tikriti, whose last name is suspiciously similar to that of his predecessor. No word yet whether Saddam's cousin Musahim was merely fired or also lined up against a wall and fired upon.
Meanwhile in the war on terrorism here in San Francisco, the illegal monthly bicycle riot known as "Critical Mass" tied up traffic yesterday in a show of solidarity with Saddam Hussein and the al-Tikriti family. San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown claims that the cost to the City of policing the various pro-Saddam protests will rise to $5 million. Brown is asking the federal government to pay for this cost out of the Homeland Security budget. My opinion is that federal government should absolutely pay for this, but only on the condition that the City stop releasing these criminals back onto the streets and instead hand them over to federal authorities where they can be treated like the enemy combatants that they are and given one-way tickets to Guantanamo.
Ruby:
And not a moment too soon, either. Blix charges by the hour, not by successful production.
Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on March 30, 2003 10:13 AMSeeing as many of these (objectively) pro-Saddam drones are also admirers of Cuba, perhaps they'd welcome a free trip to Guantanamo?
Posted by: Xrlq on March 30, 2003 01:04 PMI really *don't* want this money to come out of the homeland security budget. It's bad enough that these jerks inconvenience me and cost our city money, but those homeland security dollars are relatively scarce, and I'd really rather see them go to more critical uses--uses that will hopefully protect us from future attack or mitigate.
Posted by: Humphrey Bogus on March 30, 2003 10:37 PM