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Matt Taibbi wrote an essay, called "Cage Match" in 2003 where he proposed tongue-in-cheek that the US just annex Iraq, reduce the population by about a fifth, and put an NFL team in Baghdad. Unfortunately he published it in a now defunct newspaper, the New York Press, and I can't find the article online. Suppose Bush had actually gone ahead and done this?

I had ideas of taking Kuwait as well, and building housing developments in Iraq for retiring Americans with very favorable mortgages. But these are not essential parts of the proposal. The NFL team is.
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