(Pyongyang, North Korea) -- Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says that criticism of his land-for-uranium deal with North Korean dictator Kim Jung-Il is being perpetrated by the Bush White House as a last-minute electoral tactic.
"There is absolutely no state or federal law on the books that specifically prohibits a sitting United States senator from buying federal lands at steeply discounted rates and then signing over the mineral rights to an Asian dictator in exchange for a $150 million contribution to a political action committee's offshore bank account in the Cayman Islands," said a clearly exasperated Senator Reid during a press conference yesterday in the Kim Jong-Il Auditorium of the Kim Jong-Il Hall of the People in Pyongyang's Kim Jong-Il People's Government Complex.
When asked by journalists about reports that uranium extracted from Reid's Nevada land holdings is being used in North Korea's atomic weapons program, the Senator said that he has been assured by Kim Jong-Il that all fissionable materials will be used for "peaceful purposes....."