Funnelwebs, anyone?
So, General Sanchez, you've caught the funnelweb in his hole without getting bitten... congratulations to you and your teams! Unfortunately, this puts paid to my theory, advanced since the premature ejaculation of shock and awe, that the 'weapon of mass destruction' - as Berlusconi succintly described the mass murderer this morning AEST - had indeed perished in that first, intelligence-directed strike...

So be it. But I for one don't think we owe the monster the niceties of due process he himself denied to tens of thousands of his compatriots: why not let the ear-less Irakis club together and organise a quick reckoning? Inspiration can be found in folklore from rougher times, if I remember my Grimms' Fairytales. I have a suggestion of my own that I will NOT post, for fear of being stripped of my presumed status of a civilised near-70-year-old! Here's a hint: it involves a statue of the tired tyrant...