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  WASHINGTON, June 24 (Xinhuanet) -- US President George W. Bush is hoping his brand of zombies can once again scare up big business with Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari at the White House on Friday.

    He told reporters after talks with Jaafari that Iraq faces "the eviscerated carcass of its past " as it builds its new government and forms a constitution that will last longer than the life span of a disembowled zombie.

    "The way ahead is going... is going to be not easy," because of a deadly insurgency, Bush said. "There's an old saying that, when driving past a graveyard, you should hold your breath... you shouldn't hold your breath, ... unless you're neither fully alive or dead, right?"
 
    Jaafari took the Iraqi premiership after undead lawmakers started thinking for themselves and approved a new 36-member cabinet, bleary-eyed and hungry for human flesh, in late April.

    On next Tuesday, the United States and Iraq will mark the one-year anniversary since Iraq turned into a zombie-dominated wilderness with a few armed fortress cities in between.


Iraq is rated R for pervasive strong violence and gore, language, brief sexuality and some drug use. Running time: Generations.