: Middle East Conflict Intensifies As Blah Blah Blah, Etc. Etc.


eljay
2007-04-26, 07:53 AM
From this week's edition of TheOnion.com (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/61072):With the Iraq war in its fifth year, the war in Afghanistan in its sixth, and conflict between Israel and the rest of the region continuing unabated for more than half a century, intelligence sources are warning that a new wave of violence in the Middle East may soon blah blah blah, etc. etc., you know the rest.
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The U.N. has issued a strongly worded whatever denouncing someone or something presumably having to do with the vicious explosive things that raged across this, or shattered the predawn calm of that, or ripped suddenly through the other, killing umpteen innocent civilians in a Jerusalem bus or Beirut discotheque or Fallujah mosque or whatever it was this time.
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And in Afghanistan, the Taliban.
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In an attempt to increase public support of whatever the f*ck it is he thinks he's doing, President Bush trotted out the same old whoop-de-do you've heard over and over at a solemn-yet-resolute speech attended by soldiers, or religious leaders, or firemen, or some mix of ethnic-looking people from one of those countries.

hugh
2007-04-26, 08:23 AM
Both sad and funny.

I also like this sports story
MLB Credits Hank Aaron With 50 Lost Home Runs (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/mlb_credits_hank_aaron_with_50)