Make Lionel Ritchie dictator of Iraq. Give him Saddam's powers

[rzemanfl]

money and palaces.

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1974794

Nationalize American's music collections and have the Air Force rush Lionel Ritchie albums, CD's and tapes to Iraq. Have the troops carry an album instead of wearing body armor.

If there are any shootings or bombings he will cancel his concerts. Would you want to be the guy who caused the cancellation of the big Falujah stadium concert? I think not.

This may not be the greatest idea, but it is better than "stay the course" "we're making progress."

[pretzel4gore]

1. you're thinking outside of the box!

a 'jack' (or rawther a 'Geeb' as in, brother of that john ellis bush, or 'jeb') is in the box, so thinking outside of it presents a tantalising affront to the 'decider' who might decide to go outside the box too....iow watch yer back!
Lionel Ritchie of course would do the job, as you say, but in georgebushamerica, the job is stealing and getting away, so Lionel might not even apply...:(

[Berry Cool]

2. I know what Lionel's first act would be, too.

"The first thing I'm going to do is GET THIS DAMNED T OUT OF MY NAME!! I'm going to FORCE PEOPLE to spell it RIGHT!

"And then after that, I'm going to get the S off the end of Christopher Reeve's name...it's a little late for him now, but I'll get it done, dammit!

"It will give hope to Sally Field that she, too, can get the S off of HER name! That's right, Sally, we like you--we really LIKE you!

"Then I'll take a nice big fat N, and give it to Keith Olbermann so he has it handy whenever anybody drops one of his!

"And then I'll..."

...oh, wait, that was just MY fantasy...

[rzemanfl]

3. Whoops! The "T" was my fantasy. n/t