Saddam's defense strategy memo leaked

[Montgomery Burns]

"Lucy Ramirez" (of Rathergate memo fame) has apparently gotten hold of another memo--this one outlining Saddam's defense strategy for his trial tomorrow:

I, Saddam Hussein,

— would like to call Dick Durbin as a witness because he would be able to testify that US troops are like Nazi storm troopers. He would be able to testify that US troops are no different than the murdering thugs of Pol Pot and the gulags of Stalin.

— I would next call Senator Kennedy who would be able to testify that US troops are no better than Hussein’s thugs — my thugs.

— I would call Michael Isikoff of Newsweek magazine. He would be able to testify how US troops mistreat prisoners by flushing their Korans down the toilet at Gitmo.

— I would also call Ambassador Joe Wilson, of course. He would be my star witness, because Joe Wilson would testify that I was not a bad guy; I was not somebody that posed a danger. I never once sought uranium from anywhere, because I didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction, and Joe Wilson knows it and his wife, Valerie Plame, knows it.

And so, my friends, I, Saddam Hussein, throw in with the Democrats in the United States Senate. They are my allies, and until they finish their great and glorious work for Allah in uncovering the truth about the lies and the distortions of the cowboy Bush, I demand these trials of me be postponed and the charges dismissed — and I get my country back.

Naw, it's a parody.

Or is it?