Ex-friend posted the following on her online journal:

[Love Bug]

WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV AND HEAR ANY U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN GIVE THE FOLLOWING SPEECH?

My Fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of Iraq regime has been completed.

Since congress does not want to spend any more money on this war, our mission in Iraq is complete.

This morning I gave the order for a complete removal of all
American forces from Iraq. This action will be complete within 30 days. It is now to begin the reckoning.

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.

The other list contains everyone 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.

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.

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

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. 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.


Thirsting for a gutsy country to terrorize? Try France, or maybe
China.

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.

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


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.

Mexico is also on List 2. President Fox and his entire corrupt government really need an attitude adjustment. I will have a couple extra tank and infantry divisions sitting around. Guess where I am going to put em? Yep, border security. So start doing something with your oil.


Oh, by the way, the United State s is abrogating the NAFTA treaty -
starting now.

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. They care.

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."


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. It is time to eliminate homelessness in America. It is time to eliminate World Cup Soccer from America. To the nations on List 1, a final thought. Thanks guys. We owe you and we won't forget.

To the nations on List 2, a final thought: You might want to learn to speak Arabic.

God bless America. Thank you and good night.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.

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Now you know why she's an ex-friend. What a bunch of stupid, bigoted, uninformed, isolationist shite. This is about as well-informed as her other politial opinions -- she voted for Bush because "Kerry threw his medals away." I can't abide such ignorance.

[sniffa]

1. sweet! i Love this chain maiL

and i can see it hasn't been updated properLy, to cut out those cowardLy spanish, poLish, and itaLians.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I think this has been 'debunked' about a million times. Just a point,

all foreign aid to all countries accounts for less than .2% of the federal budget. And 'good luck' with fulfilling the US' oil needs by drilling in Alaska. Big pile of BS.

[ComerPerro]

3. Right wing propaganda bullshit

If they are so hung up on cutting off the rest of the world and solving problems here at home first, why in the world are they supporting Bush, a man who started a war based on lies for no reason at all, spent hundreds of billions of dollars on it, and ignores solving domestic problems.

Why support someone who wants roads and free health care and school for all Iraqi children, but doesn't seem to care about people here in the US?


They don't really believe in what they are saying. Its just self-righteous BS.

[jobycom]

4. The Speech which followed it would be much shorter, and quite amusing

It would be from a spokesperson for the countries on the second list:

We hearby refuse to loan any more money to the US, to buy any of its shoddy merchandise, to expel any corporation based in America from our soil, and to cut off all oil supplies to the US.

Oh yeah, and we call all of our notes due now. Pay up. Can't? We own you. Enjoy your English.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. It's amazing how little thought goes into these people's rants.

Canada & Mexico are on list 2, the countries we aren't going to have anything more to do with and also the countries we import the bulk of our foreign oil from. But that's OK cause we're going to drill in Alaska and that will take care of all our oil needs "for decades to come".
They are so uninformed it's laughable.

[NorthernSpy]

6. if she supports the war, she's not an isolationist

Does she realize that isolationists oppose aggression against other countries?

Your ex-friend is a jingoist. Was she always this tiresome?

[Love Bug]

13. Yeah, but I chalked it up to the influence of her ex-boyfriend

Once she got away from him I realized she was really that stupid. She bought into all of that "Hillary is a lesbian/got Vince Foster murdered/really runs the WH" crap, too. Her parents are evangelicals and they fed her that horseshit. Sad thing is, she's really a fun person, but in true RW hypocrital fashion, lives her life enjoying the benefits Democratic values brought her yet votes Republican because she is unable to think for herself. She's over 40, too, so youth is no excuse.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

7. Geeze,

I feel like I need to be dis-infected or something......I think the people who believe or long for this are like children. They want simple answers to complex problems. They want Mommy and Daddy to chase away the boogeyman. The sentence about foriegn aid is funny because a great deal of foreign aid arrives in the shape of weapons, planes, tanks etc. Wonder how the manufactures of those things feel about that idea?
Edited for spelling..

[LiberallyInclined]

8. "Immediately, we'll be drilling for oil in Alaska..."

"...which will take care of this country's oil needs
for decades to come..."

only if they plan on drilling from alaska, through the center of the earth, and then into saudi oilfields from below.

[ET Awful]

9. You might want to remind your "friend" that Spain left a while back

[Worst Username Ever]

10. I posted a rethug email forward today,

and commented that it is strange how you only hear this weird ass shit from repub, never dems. That is just weird.

[Mutley]

11. good think you broke up with her

[stopbush]

12. Childish, stupid jingoism. Sounds good...until

you're freezing in your home because no one will sell you oil...

or when you're starving to death because China called in their chits, dumped their dollars and adopted the Euro as their reserve currency... and bread is now $87.50 a loaf and rising...

and since sentence #1 of this crap has no chance of being achieved in our lifetimes, it sort of makes the rest of this hope-of-the-dopes screed irrelevant...

one could go on, but why bother with such imbecilic tripe.

[orwell]

14. Kool Aid

Foreign Aid = Corporate Welfare for US Multinationals and well heeled investors