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| sally |
Posted
on 25-Mar-03 06:30 AM
Can't get enough war news, but feel like you need a humor break, too? Here's something to serve both needs! True, and funny as hell ... excerpted from today's Washington Post:
There must have been shock in Baghdad and awe in Paris last week when the White House announced the news that Palau had joined the "coalition of the willing."
Palau, an island group of nearly 20,000 souls in the North Pacific, has much to contribute. It has some of the world's best scuba diving, delectable coconuts and tapioca. One thing Palau cannot contribute, however, is military support: It does not have a military ...
Hersey Kyota, Palau's ambassador to Washington, ... said Palau gamely offered its harbors and airports to the effort, but the offer was graciously declined, as Palau is nowhere near Iraq.
Palau is one of six unarmed nations in the coalition, along with Costa Rica, Iceland, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and the Solomon Islands. Then there's Afghanistan.
Asked if Iceland would be supplying troops, ambassador Helgi Agustsson gave a hearty Scandinavian guffaw. "Of course not -- we have no military," he said. "That is a good one, yes." In fact, Agustsson added, "we laid down weapons sometime in the 14th century," when the Icelandic military consisted largely of Vikings in pointy helmets ...
Therein lies the peculiarity of the coalition of the willing ... To join the coalition of the willing, a nation need do nothing more than offer "political support" -- essentially, allow its name to be put on the list.
Administration officials have furnished the list to demonstrate, as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued, that the current coalition "is larger than the coalition that existed during the Gulf War in 1991." But that 34-member group was an actual military coalition, with all members providing troops, aircraft, ships or medics ...
The coalition remains a work in progress. After initially including Angola in the coalition of the willing last week, the White House removed the country without explanation ... With luck, Angola can be replaced by Morocco, if a report yesterday by UPI is to be believed. According to the wire service, Morocco's weekly al Usbu' al-Siyassi claimed that Morocco has offered 2,000 monkeys to help detonate land mines.
An official at the Moroccan Embassy could not confirm the presence of monkeys in the coalition of the willing.
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| surya |
Posted
on 25-Mar-03 06:38 AM
That's hilarious!! That's gotta be the funnies thing in weeks. :)
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| Satya |
Posted
on 25-Mar-03 07:08 AM
I had read an article whose author coined the term "Coalition of the Coerced" for the invasion gang. Now it seems that it is also "Coalation of Monkeys".
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| YoUnGblOOdz |
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on 25-Mar-03 07:11 AM
funniiiee....
it reminds of meh.. mah mom telling .. bandar ko hath ma nairwal.. i know it don't match newhere to the posted message...... but its funny....
YB
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| YoUnGblOOdz |
Posted
on 25-Mar-03 07:12 AM
its like a man without both hands willing to buy toilet paper.. :P:P
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| sally |
Posted
on 25-Mar-03 07:20 AM
Well, I think Morocco is the US's secret weapon. Think of it: a French-speaking Arab nation sending monkeys into combat to tickle Saddam's guards into dropping their WMDs.
A shockingly awesome idea.
As for the rest of the coalition, really, they're more useful than you realize. The US can undoubtedly encourage a lot of defections among the top brass by offering sanctuary on a nice Pacific beach in Palao. This'll sound pretty good in the middle of a sandstorm, with 100-degree summer coming up. And if that doesn't work, just threaten them with exile in Iceland. Ah, that Rumsfeld ... what a genius ...
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| whine and chij |
Posted
on 25-Mar-03 07:22 AM
as long as they aren't the chij-eating surrender variety. otherwise, they'll have to remain with the coalition of the wonting.
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| whine and chij |
Posted
on 25-Mar-03 07:59 AM
speaking of a man with no hands...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=834&ncid=731&e=10&u=/nm/20030325/wl_india_nm/india_109488
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| sally |
Posted
on 25-Mar-03 08:03 AM
Maybe Samrat Upadhyay can be hired as a consultant. He got his monkeys to do some interesting things in "Guru of Love." The Iraqis can't fire WMDs if they can't wear their own protective suits, can they?
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| Arnico |
Posted
on 25-Mar-03 09:25 AM
Last I heard, one of the bhusia kukurs of Indrachowk was willing to join the "coalition of the willing"...
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| sally |
Posted
on 25-Mar-03 10:04 AM
Maybe an aid package can be put together--not quite like the one promised Turkey for its bases, but a nice one--to let loose the dogs of war.
Baghdad seems to have their share of them, too. I heard them barking in Shock and Awe. So it can be a contest. Our dogs vs. their dogs. If Nepal wins, it gets the oil. Or at least a lifetime supply of K9 Tick and Flea collars.
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| SITARA |
Posted
on 25-Mar-03 11:10 AM
LOL at Arnico! War-Mongrels????????
hehehe!
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