The Billiken's Bluff

As the President begins the week urging the patience of the American public when it comes to bringing democracy to Iraq, it turns out Billiken Bluffers the Got and A-Wood aren't the only ones viewing the potential for elections in the region through a pair of Skepticals.

Our favorite shady ex-KGB world leader Vladimir Putin also had a little hatin' to do on the whole prospect, apprently seeing having an almost Singaporean concern for the undertaking's feasibility.

In fact, our boy told the Prime Minister Iyad Allawi on Tuesday that he could not see how can Iraq hold elections while the country was under "full occupation".

"I cannot imagine how elections can be organized in conditions of total occupation of the country by foreign troops," he said.

Pressed later that day by a Billken Bluff correspondent in an exclusive interview, Putin added that the reason for his skepticism was clear. "How on earth can we be expected to hold elections with foreign troops there trying to protect Iraqis from violence and assasinations?" he asked. "How can we be expected to poison the opposition under such circumstances!

It's Jus' Naat Feasable!!!"