Hello? Washington? Monrovia calling, no it's not collect
Seems that no number of frantic calls to the 1600 Crew are going to get much action out of Chimpy McChickenhawk. Those ships are still out there "boring holes in the ocean" as we used to say. But the situation in Liberia is going from bad to worse...
Charles Taylor's forces battled Tuesday to retake key cities captured by rebels in fighting that had the Liberian warlord-turned-president threatening to hang onto power despite his pledge to resign.
Aid workers tending to emaciated babies in Monrovia said the new combat cut the starving capital's last aid lifeline. Desperate refugees, crossing paths as they fled one embattled Liberian city for another, said there was no place to turn.
"All over, fighting now," said Hadija Kabah, 54, caring for more than a dozen children and grandchildren at a makeshift camp outside Monrovia. "There's no place safe to go in Liberia."
Back in the well-protected, secure (and dare we say it), Fortress 1600, Chimpy continues to pack for his month-long Crawford Vacation, while Laura fixes his bubble bath and gets out his rubber ducky, and Unka Karl studies those polling numbers to see if helping the black folks in Liberia will have any effect on the 2004 re-elect numbers.
posted by Jo Fish on 07.29.03 at 09:01 PM
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The fact is that most Americans, who don't get accurate news reporting from the Corporate presstitutes, currently think US troops have already been committed to the defense of Liberia, just like they think the Iraqis were the 9/11 hijackers, and they used chem and bio weapons on our troops when they "liberated" Iraq.
According to Cardinal Richelieu's playbook it doesn't have to be true, just believable.
posted by: Lurch on 07.30.03 at 03:05 AM [permalink]
Nothing's far when one wants to get there.
posted by: Butler Ron
on 05.03.04 at 09:36 AM [permalink]
