Iraqi Kings of the Jungle

On the day that the White Phosphorus debate was rekindled, I missed the birth of a more bizarre allegation. I just saw Rummy's reaction when asked about it during a Pentagon briefing, absolutely priceless. Lions? What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on around here?

Well, it seems that Saddam's late son Uday used to keep a mini-pride caged in one of his palaces. Sounds like Tony Montana (that's him in the hot tub) to me. Tony bought himself a tiger when he briefly got what "was coming to him," i.e. "the world, Chico, and everything in it." No doubt he served as a role model - their destinies were certainly eerily similar - for ol' Uday.

And so now the U.S. military must be using his ex-pets to coerce confessions. Dunno about that, last thing I heard the lions were purring away in the Baghdad Zoo, quite pleased to have been liberated from the clutches of the Hussein clan.

Last but not least, I just read a very sober piece (the comments are good too) on the whole WP situation. I rest my case. Really.