Saddam deserves the right to be a British, according to BBC listeners

The BBC Today radio program voted for Saddam Hussein as a foreigner, the most "deserving honorary status of a British citizen."

The appearance of the "Baghdad butcher", as human rights activists call it, among the personalities such as the leader of the Burmese opposition, Ms. Aun San Su Sui and former US President Bill Clinton, however, causes some surprise, The Guardian writes today (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

The newspaper notes that up to the end of the year, the Radio 4 program holds the contest “Enter-Won” (One-in, One-out ), during which students are offered to choose from two lists of five people who are worthy of British citizenship and who are not.

Along with Saddam Hussein, Mr. Clinton and Miss Aun San Su Su Zhya, the Australian Shane Waorn and the current US President George Bush are in the list of foreign applicants of British citizenship. “Waorn would come in handy here,” said one listener, “to give the heat and add inspiration to the English cricket.”

Support, expressed by President Bush, was formulated ambiguously: one radio listener paid tribute to his merits in the field of entertainment, the other called the "outstanding politician", and the third included him in the list, because "being a British citizen, he will not be able to be elected by the president of the United States."

It is interesting that Nelson Mandela, who received 50% of the vote, go, and Tony Blair with his 50% of the vote “go out” ahead of schedule from among the participants in the competition.

On the TODAI website you can read a brief description of Saddam Hussein:
"The president of Iraq, the writer. According to the United States, indulges in the production of weapons of mass destruction, is a key figure in the" Evil axis "and the enemy of the company number two (after the Usama Ben Laden)."

The results of the competition indicate that the students of the program are quite politically aware. Apparently, those who choose Hussein owns one feeling: "Here we will look after him, and he will not do troubles."