Top 11 reasons Dubya will accept Saddam Hussein living in exile.

11. The whole war thing isn't turning out the way Rove said it would.

10. The Saudis insist.

9. Trial for war crimes could get messy for Dad, Uncle Dick and Rummy.

8. Gassing own people, torturing children in front of their parents mitigated by multinational corporate access to Iraqi oil.

7. Pretty sure that if the nation of Exile had any oil, he'd know where it was.

6. Insures that daughter Jenna will also have a villain when it's her turn to be President.

5. Professional courtesy.

4. The horror of his own experience occasionally reporting for duty in the Texas Air National Guard has made war his last resort.

3. War will temporarily reduce US imports of Iraqi oil which have doubled in the last month to offset Venezuela's diminished productivity.

2. It appears to have worked with bin Laden, again.

1. Former Enron executive and current Secretary of the Army Thomas White has some property in Riyadh he needs to unload for his legal defense fund.

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