Not, in fact, Bush to Saddam Hussein, but rather Tom Lord to svn-dev; Merging technologies is one thing, how to get there another. I might have read some similar postings on some PHP lists too [2].
[1] http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=33453&list=dev
[2] http://derickrethans.nl/ppl_lemos.php
