Bart Senior wrote:
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.

???

Shutting off all foreign aid to everybody for five years won't pay for
the Iraq war *so far*.


The American people are no longer going to pour money into third world
Hell-holes and watch those government leaders grow fat on corruption.

Agreed.

Problem... "growing fat on corruption" means that they are buying goods
(most likely weapons) from American companies... companies that make
campaign contributions...



Need help with a famine? Wrestling with an epidemic? Call France.

In the future, together with Congress, I will work to redirect this
money toward solving the vexing social problems we still have at home.

That would be very conservative, wouldn't it?
Anyway I'd rather see them spend the money on the space program.

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.

You mean like Bush did with Osama Bin Laden?


.. 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. Bon chance, mes amis.

Bush speaks Spanish, not French.

Anyway, think seriously about what the break up of NATO would mean.
Actually, NATO would not break up, it would just become a new alliance
against us.


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.

That part is funny, but the same holds true of the U.S. Congress &
Senate. And as a foreign & economic policy, isolationism makes less
sense now than it did in 1938. The rhetoric about "not appeasing hostile
foreign leaders" is the corollary.

Bush has less chance of making this speech than he does of getting
invited to a sledding party by Chavez.

DSK