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"If this works, and I figure it will, could we perhaps get Gollem to run the US?"
"Why not? The US has already put Grima Wormtounge in charge of Britain!"

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You realize for this to work someone in the Bush administration would have had to have read Tolkien to know who this guy is. And that's a pretty big book without pictures.

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Environmentalists have raised concerns about Saruman's land management policies when he was in charge of Isengard. "He effected a degree of environmental devastation that the universe has seldom witnessed," one activist charged, but Gadd said such accusations were "overblown." "Saruman acknowledges that in an effort to bring economic development to an impoverished region of Middle Earth, he may have been too aggressive in his management of Isengard's timber resources," Gadd said, "but how many trees are there in Iraq? The place is a ----ing desert."

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