How, according to at least one humorist, did Annie Oakley miss the opportunity to prevent World War I?

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In Europe, she performed for Queen Victoria, and other crowned heads of state. Oakley had such good aim that, at his request, she knocked the ashes off a cigarette held by the Prince of Prussia, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II. The Annie Oakley Foundation suggests that she was not the source of a widely-repeated sarcasm related to the event, "Some uncharitable people later ventured that if Annie would have shot Wilhelm and not his cigarette, she could have prevented World War I. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Oakley Jul 30 09, 11:07 PM