Posted on 05/12/2004 8:28:03 AM PDT by Caleb1411
I feel as if I am in a Peter Sellers movie. Let's recap political unrest in the world, all the fault of the U.S., with most of the blame resting at the feet of defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld this week. Condi Rice blame fever has passed. Whilst minding our own capitalistic business one fine day in September 2001, members of a radical faction of a Middle Eastern religion slammed planes into several of our buildings, killing about 3,000 and maiming others.
So that Halliburton could have more work, Dick Cheney could earn bonuses while serving as VP, and we could get more oil so that gas prices would climb to $2 per gallon, we took military action in Afghanistan to wipe out the boot camps and leaders of the plane-flying radicals. Bad, evil Americans, ousting the kindhearted Taliban. To compensate and make nice, we dropped food and supplies into Afghanistan. Complaints arose because the peanut butter in some of the food kits was not a Middle Eastern favorite. We apologized.
To give the Democrats some form of a platform on which to run a candidate for president who has the charisma of a ferret and obtain more oil to drive gas prices even higher, the U.S. invaded Iraq. We bombed a bit, ousted a murderous dictator, and, feeling guilty, built schools, improved the water supply, and brought electricity to areas it had never gone before. We apologized to the French and Germans for giving the contracts for rebuilding to U.S. firms.
As we rebuilt Iraq, radicals bombed cars carrying civilian engineers and then carted their charred bodies through the streets, hanging a few, for better visual effects, from a bridge. Liberals demanded a withdrawal and apology for the mess we had made. Surreal. Selleresque.
The Peter Sellers movie, based on Leonard Wibberley's brilliant satire of 1954, The Mouse That Roared, has come true.. . .
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BTTT for an excellent article.
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