and you thought uday was dead. this just in off the ap wire:

¶ LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) _ Sen. Jim Bunning's re-election campaign issued an apology after Bunning said a potential opponent looks like one of Saddam Hussein's sons.
¶ Bunning made the comment about state Sen. Daniel Mongiardo during a speech at a Republican event March 20. Mongiardo will face Bunning in the November election if he wins the Democratic primary as expected.
¶ "We're sorry if this joke, which got a lot of laughs, offended anyone," Bunning's campaign manager, David Young, said Wednesday.
¶ Bunning apparently did not compare Mongiardo specifically to either of Saddam's two sons, Odai or Qusai. The brothers were killed in a firefight with U.S. soldiers July 22 last year.
¶ A spokesman for Mongiardo said he had not received an apology from Bunning and called on Bunning's campaign to make public the only known videotape of the speech.
¶ "A halfhearted apology from his campaign manager is no apology at all," Mongiardo spokesman Eric Niloff said. "Jim Bunning needs to come clean, show the people of Kentucky the tape and let them decide whether or not that's funny."
¶ Young declined to release the tape.
¶ In his 2002 campaign, Mongiardo accused Republican Johnnie L. Turner of using bigotry and racism in an ad that showed Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta. Mongiardo said the ad made a point of showing that he and Atta both had dark eyes, black hair and olive complexions.
¶ Bunning, 72, is seeking a second term. He is opposed in the May 18 primary election by former state Sen. Barry Metcalf, whom he defeated in the 1998 primary.
¶ Bunning, a former major league pitcher and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, has a history of making controversial remarks as a lawmaker. In 1997, he apologized for saying on a radio show that downtown Louisville was devastated by flooding because the city failed to close its floodgates in time, which was untrue.
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