This from Yahoo News today:
"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – An elderly man who wrote in a letter to the editor about Saddam Hussein’s execution that "they hanged the wrong man" got a visit from Secret Service agents concerned he was threatening President Bush.
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[81-year-old] Tilli said the statement was not a threat. "I didn’t say who — I could’ve meant (Osama) bin Laden," he said Friday.
Two Secret Service agents questioned Tilli at his Bethlehem apartment Thursday, briefly searching the place and taking pictures of him, he said."
What’s the difference between this and a banana republic? Fewer bananas. (And no, that wasn’t a threat to banana-wielding dictators of any country.)
