SADDAM HUSSEIN announced today that he will be the Ba’ath Party’s candidate for governor of California. “I feel that I have a breadth of experience in governance that all the other candidates lack,” Mr. Hussein said shortly after filing his candidacy papers in Sacramento. “I also feel that it is about time for the people in this state to know that we have legitimate claims to southern Oregon and that we are prepared to take the strongest possible action to have our claims recognized. Therefore, when I am governor, the first order of business will be to occupy all of Oregon short of Portland. While we're at it we may take southern Nevada as well, just to get hold of some them Vegas showgirls." There has been no response yet to Mr. Hussein’s claims from the governments of Oregon or Nevada.