Terrorists kidnap Bush administration. Demand ransom money.

[Beelzebud]

A driver is stuck in a traffic jam on the highway. Nothing is moving. suddenly a man knocks on the window. The driver rolls down the window and asks, "What's happened?"

The man says, "Terrorists have kidnapped George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice and Don Rumsfeld. They are asking for a $10 million ransom or they will douse them with gasoline and set them on fire. We are going from car to car, taking up a collection."

The driver asks, "How much is everyone giving on average?"

The man replies, "About a gallon."

:evilgrin:

[Virginia Dare]

1. Thanks, I needed that!

:rofl: :applause:

[wryter2000]

2. I love that one

Thanks for reminding me. :applause:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. The best thing the terrahists could do is lay down their arms,

recede into the background and just do nothing. As a Russian diplomat once said....

http://prorev.com/enemy.htm
At the end of the Cold War, a top Soviet official promised America one last horrible surprise. We are, he said, going to deprive you of an enemy. The official turned out to be more perceptive about American politics than many in Washington. In at least one Pentagon office there is still a sign that reads: WANTED: A GOOD ENEMY.

Mostly unreported, America's political and military planners have been working hard developing an external threat to compensate for the disappearance of the USSR. Although in the short run, the Pentagon has been remarkably successful in exempting itself from the deficit-cutting hysteria, there is always the danger that the public and politicians might start asking too many questions. Even those defense contractors whose basic expertise is the creation of weapon cost overruns are hedging their bets. A slew of these companies, for example, are bidding to take over the Texas social welfare system, thus diversifying from one form of human misery to another.

Lately the military's dilemma has come a bit more out in the open thanks to something called the Quadrennial Defense Review, a sort of Olympics of Pentagon budgetary navel gazing. In the subsequent angst as displayed in policy papers, conferences, and trade journals, it still appears that the military and foreign policy junkies lack a decent foe.

So uncertain is their trumpet, in fact, that planners have been forced to resort to abstractions that are not only uninformative, they are truly absurd. I am not speaking of euphemisms, mind you, for a euphemism is word or phrase substituted for something else. In this case, there is no something, at least until around 2010 when it is optimistically projected that a non-euphemistic enemy might actually emerge.

[valerief]

4. Good one! n/t

[CelticWinter]

5. LOL that was funny thanks n/t