U.S. Senator's Slaphappy Saddamite Wife Avoids Jail

What has Sen. Max Baucus' zany Saddam sob sister of a wife been up to these days? Getting into catfights with other gals, that's what.

Most media refused to report Wanda Baucus' pro-Saddam rantings last year, so we'll refresh your memory:

"We are way out of line" and have no right to fight Saddam Hussein, she said. She described the genocidal dictator as being "very proud of the history of his country. I think it's we Americans who don't know the facts about what anthropologists call 'the cradle of civilization.' ... He cares about these places and their people."

To draw attention to her appeasement activism, you might recall, Mrs. Baucus desecrated the American flag in her home in uppity Georgetown by replacing the stars with doves.

More recently, wacky Wanda was arrested and charged with assault for attacking another customer in the parking lot of Johnson's Nursery in northwestern Washington.

Federal prosecutors caved today and agreed to let Mrs. B avoid prosecution by entering a "diversion" program for first-time offenders.

"Details of the program were not immediately known, but it's expected to include some type of anger management training," reported the Associated Press, conjuring images of the nutty comedy starring Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler.

Baucus, D-Mont., refused to return phone calls but had said in an earlier statement, "I stand by her 110 percent."

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