The Sheikh loves the costumery of the movie The Mouse That Roared
Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, says he has found a way out of the emirate’s debt problems — by declaring war on the US.
“If the US invades us, then the old saying ‘You break it, you bought it’ comes into play and US could ‘liberate’ us and then be on the hook for our debts,” he said.
The Sheikh said he got the idea after watching a the 1959 movie The Mouse that Roared, in which a gang of men from the fictitious country The Duchy of Grand Fenwick invade the US in order to help them with their economic woes. (An idea previously stolen and used with mixed results by Saddam Hussein in Gulf War, part 1.)
The Shiekh said he gets most of his best ideas from movies, which explains why he recently held a state banquet for the Muppets and had planned to open his own Jurassic Park before the debt crisis hit.
Reports from within Dubai claim the Shiekh’s secret service have forbid him to from watching 2012 before he gets any big ideas on destroying the planet.
