Speaking as a game designer, it sure is embarrassing when you design a game and then a really stupid loophole is left in, and people exploit the hell out of it. Bush and co. must know what it feels like now, as his plans to introduce democracy to Iraq by Saddam Hussein declaring his interest in running for president of Iraq in January’s elections.

Stefano [Saddam’s laywer] said that there was no law that prevented Saddam from appearing on the ballot. He added that Saddam hopes to regain his presidency and palaces via the democratic process
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Saddam’s lawyer defends that the ambiguity in Iraq will favor Saddam at the polls. Stefano remarked that a recent Gallup poll indicates that 42 percent of the Iraqi people want their former leader back.

I’ve no doubt that the Iraqi constitution will be patched with an emergency hotfix to close this little loophole. Edit: looks like we were already planning on fixing the elections but not in the way you thought.

The Bush administration has been forced to scale back a plan proposing a covert CIA operation to aid candidates, favoured by Washington, in the Iraq elections after lawmakers raised questions about the idea when it was sent to Capitol Hill.
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But lawmakers, from both parties, raised questions about the idea when it was sent to Capitol Hill. In particular, house minority leader Nancy Pelosi “came unglued” when she learned about what a source described as a plan for “the CIA to put an operation in place to affect the outcome of the elections,” said Time magazine.

Expect more chaos around that election to arise as the chaos around our own grows.