A Time to Party
I had to comment on this, (and yes, the article is real)
Congress is ready to celebrate with a $20 million victory party.
Lawmakers included language in this year’s defense spending bill, approved last week, allowing them to spend the money. The funds for “commemoration of success” in Iraq and Afghanistan were originally tucked into last year’s defense measure, but they went unspent amid an uptick in violence in both countries that forced the Pentagon to extend tours of duty for thousands of troops
Many are calling this fiscal mismanagment but in fact it explains much of the war on terrorism as practiced.
For instance why did Bush invade Iraq? Considering this revelation and the well established fact of his poor grammer and vocabulary there is a remarkable new possibility.
He could quite possibly have confused a “war party” of the festive type with another definition “war party”:
A band of warriors engaged in fighting or raiding an enemy
Amazing! a simple misunderstanding! And the bombs!
macabre party favors? poorly made party invitations? Who can really say?
Or maybe the U.S. congress and White House are just full of fiscally irresponsibly warmongers.
The 20 million ought to be spent in Washington right now on a going away party for the whole bunch.
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