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<br><div>Here's what our brilliant organizers in AARP are circulating re Iraq.</div><div>Just thought you might want to know what you're up against should you be planning to try to educate this outfit and other patriotic American brain trusts like them—and while you read this, think "framing, framing, framing..."</div><div>Andrea</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">This is an email from Keith Bauer, State Volunteer Mobilizer<br><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><div id="yiv2138569949"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><b>Subject:</b> Email of the year...</span></div><blockquote style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <div><br></div><font size="2"><br> <blockquote class="replbq" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><br><br> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#333333" size="6">WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV AND HEAR ANY U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN, GIVE THE FOLLOWING SPEECH?</font> <font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#000080" size="6"><br> </font></dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#000080" size="6"></font><dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#000080" size="6">'</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#333333" size="6">My Fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of the Iraq regime has been completed.<br><br> </font></dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#333333" size="6"><dd>Since congress does not want to spend any more money on this war, our mission in Iraq is complete.<br><br> </dd></font><dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#333333" size="6">This morning I gave the order for a complete removal of all American forces from Iraq</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#000080" size="6"> .</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#333333" size="6"> This action will be complete within 30 days. It is now time to begin the reckoning.</font><font face="Verdana" color="#800040" size="1"><br></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6"><br><br> </font></dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6"><dd>Before me, I have two lists. One list contains the names of countries which have stood by our side during the Iraq conflict. This list is short. The United Kingdom, Spain, Bulgaria, Australia, and Poland are some of the countries listed there.<br><br> </dd><dd>The other list contains every one not on the first list. Most of the world's nations are on that list. My press secretary will be distributing copies of both lists later this evening.<br><br> </dd></font><dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6">Let me start by saying that effective immediately, foreign aid to those nations on List 2 ceases immediately and indefinitely. The money saved during the first year alone will pretty much pay for the costs of the Iraqi war.<font color="#3366ff"> </font></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#3366ff" size="6">THEN EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER IT'LL GO TO OUR SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM SO IT WON'T GO BROKE IN 20 YEARS.</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6"> <br><br> </font></dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6"><dd>The American people are no longer going to pour money into third world Hell holes and watch those government leaders grow fat on corruption.<br><br> </dd><dd>Need help with a famine? Wrestling with an epidemic? Call France.<br><br> </dd></font><dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6">In the future, together with Congress, I will work to redirect this money toward solving the vexing social problems we still have at home. On that note, a word to terrorist organizations. Screw with us and we will hunt you down and eliminate you and all your friends from the face of the earth.</font><font face="Verdana" color="#333333"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size="6"><br><br> </font></dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size="6"></font><dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size="6"><font color="#333333">Thirsting for a gutsy country to terrorize? Try France or maybe China.</font></font><font color="#333333"><font face="Verdana"> </font><br><br></font> </dd><dd><font face="Arial Black" size="6"><font color="#800040">I am ordering the immediate severing of diplomatic relations with France, Germany, and Russia. Thanks for all your help, comrades. We are retiring from NATO as well. <font color="#800000">Bon</font></font></font><font size="6"><font face="Arial Black"><font color="#333333"><font color="#800000">ne</font> </font><font color="#800040">chance, </font><font color="#800000">mez amies</font><font color="#800040">.</font></font></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#333333" size="6"><br><br> </font></dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#333333" size="6"></font><dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#333333" size="6">I have instructed the Mayor of New York City to begin towing the many UN diplomatic vehicles located in Manhattan with more than two unpaid parking tickets to sites where those vehicles will be stripped, shredded and crushed. I don't care about whatever treaty pertains to this. You creeps have tens of thousands of unpaid tickets. Pay those tickets tomorrow or watch your precious Benzes, Beamers and limos be turned over to some of the finest chop shops in the world. I love New York</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6"> <br><br> </font></dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6"></font><dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6">A special note to our neighbors. Canada is on List 2. Since we are likely to be seeing a lot more of each other, you folks might want to try not pissing us off for a change.</font><font color="#800040" size="6"><br><br> </font></dd><font color="#800040" size="6"></font><dd><font color="#800040" size="6"><font face="Verdana">Mexico is also on List 2. Its president and his entire corrupt government really need an attitude adjustment. I will have a couple extra thousand tanks and infantry divisions sitting around. Guess where I am going to put 'em? Yep, border security.</font></font><font face="Verdana" color="#333333"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size="6"><br><br> </font></dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size="6"></font><dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size="6"><font color="#333333">Oh, by the way, the United States is abrogating the NAFTA treaty - starting now.</font></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6"> <br><br> </font></dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6"></font><dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6">We are tired of the one-way highway. Immediately, we'll be drilling for oil in Alaska- which will take care of this country's oil needs for decades to come. If you're an environmentalist who opposes this decision, I refer you to List 2 above: pick a country and move there.</font><font face="Verdana" color="#333333"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size="6"><br><br> </font></dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size="6"></font><dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size="6"><font color="#333333">It is time for America to focus on its own welfare and its own citizens. Some will accuse us of isolationism. I answer them by saying, 'darn tootin.'</font></font><font face="Verdana" color="#333333"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6"><br><br> </font></dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6"></font><dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6">Nearly a century of trying to help folks live a decent life around the world has only earned us the undying enmity of just about everyone on the planet. It is time to eliminate hunger in America.</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#000080" size="6"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6">It is time to eliminate homelessness in America. To the nations on List 1, a final thought</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#000080" size="6"> :</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800040" size="6"> Thank you guys. We owe you and we won't forget.</font><font color="#333333" size="6"><br><br> </font></dd><font color="#333333" size="6"><dd>To the nations on List 2, a final thought: You might want to learn to speak Arabic.<br><br> </dd></font><dd><font color="#333333" size="6">God bless America .. Thank you and good night.</font><font color="#000080" size="6">'</font><font color="#333333" size="2"> </font><font color="#800040" size="6"><br><br> </font></dd><font color="#800040" size="6"></font><dd><font color="#800040" size="6">If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#333333" size="6"> <br><br> </font></dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#333333" size="6"></font><dd><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#333333" size="6">(Please forward this to at least ten friends and see what happens! Let's get this to every USA computer!)</font><font color="#800040" size="6"><font face="Verdana"> </font></font></dd></td></tr></tbody></table><br></blockquote><br></font></blockquote></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table><br> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>