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Oh me or my (& re last post)… why couldn’t somebody just man up and do this?

From 2002

Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi Ramadan made the following remarks without giving any outward sign he was joking, although reporters who were present detected a note of irony in his voice.

“Bush wants to attack the whole (of) Iraq, the army and the infrastructure,” Ramadan said.

“The American president should specify a group, and we will specify a group and choose neutral ground, with Kofi Annan as referee, and use one weapon, with a president against a president, a vice president against a vice president, and a minister against a minister in a duel. In this way we are saving the American and the Iraqi people.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/dueling.html
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/10/03/iraq.bush.duel/

Back in the day, kings led charges and Alexander the Great was the first over the wall. Our modern commanders’ only sword is their pen and the only blood they risk is strangers’.

These guys’ poor partners.

The locks start around 4:00 in this.

Tap harder. I can’t hear you over the sound of snapping tendons.

Sometimes I feel like swordfighting is like this – once enough people do it, it’ll blow up.

except…, in the future, when we are all in space and shooting each other with guns might blow a hole in the world, swords will come back in vogue, with zero-grav lunges across the void. Space pirates vs. space ninjas!