New York, NY -- A group of competitive eaters is so dismayed with George W. Bush's promise to smoke out Osama bin Laden that they're now offering to gas out the terrorist leader.

The International Federation of Competitive Eating is holding a U.S.-wide bean eating circuit this month to find the country's six greatest bean eaters. In six different cities, the person who downs five pounds of pork and beans in the shortest amount of time will become the winner.

IFOCE Chairman George Shea says once the team of tooters has been assembled, they'll offer their aid to the coalition effort in the hills of Afghanistan and try and gas bin Laden out of hiding.

Shea says this is the most patriotic part of the program, calling the elite force a "Weapon of Mass Digestion."

The contest will begin Oct. 16 near Charleston, South Carolina, and will wrap up around the end of November.

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