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Subject: In This Game, Toppling Saddam Is the Easy Part
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In This Game, Toppling Saddam Is the Easy Part
http://www.idleworm.com/
In This Game, Toppling Saddam Is the Easy Part
Feb 10, 10:32 am ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toppling Saddam Hussein is the easy part in the war
simulation game "Gulf War 2." Coping with what comes next is more
difficult.Players assume the role of President Bush in the online game,
receiving regular briefings from caricatures of Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security adviser
Condoleezza Rice.It starts with Baghdad's quick fall but then proceeds to
an Iraqi anthrax attack on Israel, a retaliatory nuclear strike, revolt in
Saudi Arabia, and a Kurdish coup in northern Iraq.Once Saddam Hussein's
body is found, players are asked to select one of three look-alike
successors, who soon requires military backing to fend off an anxious
Iran.There are also anti-American uprisings in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon,
Syria and Pakistan, which lead eventually to nuclear warheads being
smuggled to militant groups."This is a projection of the most likely
outcome of a new war in the Gulf," reads the Web site www.idleworm.com,
home of the game created in November by 33-year-old Dermot O'Connor.
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