Presidential Security Briefing
WASHINGTON, June 11 — At the end of each day, President Bush gets a three-to-four-page memo from the National Security Council staff about developments over the previous 24 hours in Iraq. The document, said to be written in the crisp, compelling style that the president prefers, can cover a range of issues — the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, new nominees for cabinet posts or the progress, or lack of it, in ending the three-year insurgency.
(New York Times)
With the bombs raining down from the sky like the devil’s tears, al-Zarqawi grabbed his bare-breasted mistress and pulled her close to him. Her heaving bossom raced his own pounding heartbeat as he smelled the strawberry fields of her hair and whispered, “Run with me.”
But vengeance is often swift, much swifter than sandaled-feet in sliding sands, and thus came the end to one of Iraq’s most notorious terrorists. With his eyes turned towards the raging heavens, filled now with the acrid plume of Justice-delivering bombsmoke, he put his hand over his heart, making one final silent prayer, perhaps to Allah, perhaps to the mother who used to hold him tightly watching the bedouin head off for a desert-long journey. And then al-Zarqawi was no more.
In other news, the military has institiuted “honey-glazed ham Thursdays” in all of its mess halls. This is a delicious, slow-roasted whole ham hock with a honey and clove glaze, reminiscent by many reports to the type of homecooking rarely found even on the modern American table. It harks back to a simpler time, when good food was as highly valued culturally as, say, American Idol is today. Yum!
June 12th, 2006 at 10:45 am
is this your audition for the new yorker’s shouts and murmurs?
June 13th, 2006 at 10:07 am
funny.
June 13th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
I was thinking our President’s desired style would be more like:
Dear Mr. President,
–Rebuilding Iraq is hard work.
–We think about Iraq every single day. Every single day.
etc.
June 13th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Not compelling.
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