Every article I’ve read detailing the difficulty of the U.N. inspectors’ task has mentioned the phrase, “Iraq is as big as California.” This is a fine analogy for Californians and the gifted and talented, but what about the rest of us unfamiliar with the intricacies of geography?
That’s why I’m suggesting reporters change the analogy to “Iraq is a large country--about the size of Bigassylvania.” Reporters should also compare Saddam Hussein to “Count Bigassula” and run a side-by-side profile with Count Chocula so no one gets Hussein’s acts of torture and cruelty confused with the dehydration of marshmallows.
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