OT: spirit of the times :)
eddys...@hotmail.com
were hiking through the desert one day when they were captured by
Iraqis.
They were tied up, led to the village and brought before the leader.
The leader said, "I am familiar with your western custom of granting
the condemned a last wish. Before we kill and dismember you, do you
have any last requests?"
Dan Rather said, "Well, I'm a Texan; so I'd like one last bowl full of
hot, spicy chili." The leader nodded to an underling who left and
returned with the chili. Rather ate it all and said, "Now I can die
content."
Cokie Roberts said, "I'm a reporter to the end. I want to take out my
tape recorder and describe the scene here and what's about to happen.
Maybe someday someone will hear it and know that I was on the job till
the end." The leader directed an aide to hand over the tape recorder
and Roberts dictated some comments. She then said, "Now I can die
happy."
The leader turned and said, "And now, Mr. U.S. Marine, what is your
final wish?" "Kick me in the ass," said the Marine." "What?" asked the
leader. "Will you mock us in your last hour?" "No, I'm not kidding. I
want you to kick me in the ass," insisted the Marine. So the leader
shoved him into the open, and kicked him in the ass.
The Marine went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled a 9mm
pistol from inside his cammies, and shot the leader dead. In the
resulting confusion, he leapt to his knapsack, pulled out his M4
carbine, and sprayed the Iraqis with gunfire. In a flash, the Iraqis
were dead or fleeing for their lives.
As the Marine was untying Rather and Roberts, they asked him, "Why
didn't you just shoot them? Why did you ask them to kick you in the
ass?"
"What!?" said the Marine, "And have you assholes call ME the
aggressor?"
Briarroot
That was funny, but it's not the end of the story. The next day's
edition of The Guardian would have featured a screaming headline
reading: "US Marine Murders Friendly Iraqis!" And the subhead would
say: "After a group of Iraqis fed one reporter and supplied another
with a new tape recorder, their Marine escort became enraged and
opened fire on the group, killing the leader and several bystanders!"
Details on page B3.
There are *facts* and then there are "facts," you see. :-(
--
"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of
his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare others who have
not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the
first principle of association: the guarantee to everyone the free
exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." - Thomas
Jefferson.
Vincenzo Beretta
The Iranian government decides to go on with their nuclear program. Since
diplomacy fails, Prez Bush decides that military action is the only
solution. As the US divisions begin to stage on the Iran-Iraq border, the
Iranian people form a long human wall facing the tanks: "WE DO NOT FEAR NO
US INVASION, BRING IT ON!!" reads a titanic banner held by 500.000 people at
the same time.
D-Day comes, the ultimatum is about to expire, when an Iranian spokeperson
crosses the border: "OK, OK, we surrender. We will dismantle our nuclear
program".
"Weren't you the ones who didn't feared to be invaded by the US?" sneers a
US marine.
"And we still don't. But then we thought about the 'rebuilding phase'..."
Ray O'Hara
"Briarroot" <Bria...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> eddys...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > News Anchor Dan Rather, NPR Reporter Cokie Roberts and a U.S. Marine
> > were hiking through the desert one day when they were captured by
> > Iraqis.
cokie's father senator hale boggs of louisiana was a member of the warren
commission which completely botched the kennedy assassination investigation.
and what's with the cokie nickname anyway? anybody o've met called a "cokie"
had post nasal drip if you catch my drift.