Saddam, up close and personal...

I stopped to get gas on the way to my Mom's today. The owner's of the gas station I frequent are Arabs, but I never thought much about it. While I was pumping my gas, one of the guys I'd talked to before (my age, I'd guess) came out to add water to the windshield washing thingies.

I said, "Hey, how's it going?"

He said, "Did you hear, they hung my President, Saddam?"

Immediately, every white-bread blood vessel in my body flashed: Terrorist Alert!!! I frantically tried to think of a politically correct response, finally deciding on: "Yes, I was surprised they actually carried that out."

He said, "Oh, no... there are many of us who would have loved to pull that rope!"

No problem, except in my mind...