Obama's Afghanistan –
Conned
The house rarely loses

Americans are furious.
    We've been conned again,
Obama said we're pulling out,
    but now's finessing when.

Boehner in particular
    is horribly upset.
Tears of jubilation got
    his pancake makeup wet.

Why spend three months to get it right?
    And five days later, Bang, be wrong?
Then call on Hill to make amends?
    In her Men's Warehouse sarong?

We've seen how much help Karzai's been:
    Eight years just struggling to survive.
How many billions must we blow
    to keep one Pashtun fraud alive?

It doesn't cost the Taliban
    a million bucks a man,
'Cause guess what? Their families
    are living in Afghanistan.

So rest and recreation
    can be had at little cost
While relatively very little
    travel time is lost.

If McChristal thinks attrition's
    going to be his winning card,
The idiot's forgotten that
    it's not his house and not his yard.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
12/7/09

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