Not Your Sweetie

US Democracy:Where the Candidate with the Most Votes Loses


LONDON -- In a recently televised satire here titled "Between Iraq and a
Hard Place," George
W. Bush is depicted as an idiot who can't seem to grasp why Saddam
Hussein isn't
cooperating with the U.S. timetable for war. American democracy is
defined as "where there
are two candidates and the one with the most votes loses," and Britain's
role in the
forthcoming military campaign is starkly simple:

"What is it that the Americans want from us?" asks a British official.

"From us?" replies an army general. "Dead bodies."