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As Mika recently posted, Straw recently made reference to game playing by Saddam Hussein. As a teacher, always on the lookout for ways to stimulate my charges, it made me wonder how to explain this game to any other people who might care to play. I think it might go a bit like this: 1. Split up into two sides. Put all the big, strong people on one side and then all the young, weaker people on the other. Make sure that the big strong side have lots of things like sticks, baseball bats, stones etc.Give the weak side a leader who, in other circumstances, you might expect to find on the Strong Side. 2. The big strong side threatens to beat the little weak side to death. It also threatens to go to their houses and beat their families and friends to death. It even threatens to beat their pet tortoises, cats and dogs to death. 3a. The weak side hands over its pocket money and all answers to the homework. If this happens, the Big Strong Side should point out that this is only a game. The Little Weak Side need to be threatened with being beaten into a bloody pulp, because it makes the game work. or 3b. The weak side points out that it hasn't actually been given any pocket money and that the teacher has already collected the homework. The Big Strong Side is then allowed to beat the living sh*t out of the youngsters and thier friends and families. Presumably, they would argue that the Little Weak Things refused to play the game. 4. Repeat ad nauseam. _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk