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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 08:39 PM
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"Well, YOU try to Reconstruct Iraq!" Says US Defensive Department
Edited on Wed Oct-29-03 09:02 AM by Skinner
WASHINGTON, DC—Responding to recent criticism of reconstruction efforts in Iraq, the U.S. Defensive Department released a statement to the public Monday suggesting that perhaps they could do better, since they're obviously so smart.

Above: U.S. soldiers in Basra reconstruct Iraq, while you do nothing but criticize.

"Well, it looks like you American people have figured it all out, then," the statement read in part. "There's no need for the old government to do anything, because the citizens know just how to handle this whole reconstruction-of-Iraq thing. Well, go ahead! If it's so simple, and if you're so smart, then what's stopping you? Come on."

"Oh, gosh!" the statement continued. "Wait! It looks like Iraq is a whole big country! And it seems that someone just fought a war there, to oust a despotic regime! So, gee, this might take a while, huh?"

At a press conference Monday, visibly upset Defensive Department spokesman Lawrence Pettibone addressed key points of the ongoing reconstruction process, such as its cost.

http://www.theonion.com/3942/news1.html

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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 08:43 PM
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1. Well done!
You have read Rumsfeld's mind and put it down for all the world to see.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 08:56 PM
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3. Thanks, but I can't take the credit for it--only for posting it!
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gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 08:54 PM
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2. Losin' it. Big time.
Edited on Tue Oct-28-03 08:54 PM by gristy
This should probably be in the lounge, though. You had me goin' for a while.
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smallprint Donating Member (778 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 09:02 PM
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4. This is brilliant
Very Onion-esque. Who wrote it? Please post link.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 09:06 PM
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5. It's Onion-esque because it is the Onion!
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smallprint Donating Member (778 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 09:33 PM
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7. Aha.
I forgot that they are posting the issue on Tuesday nights now. They used to wait until Wednesday afternoon.

:dunce:
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Il_Coniglietto Donating Member (217 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 09:09 PM
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6. LOL, Defensive Department
;-)
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gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 10:00 PM
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8. here's the link
Joeybee, ya shouldn't be postin' the whole article like that. And no link either...

http://www.theonion.com/3942/news1.html
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