One morning George W. Bush is sitting at his desk in the Oval Office when Condoleeza Rice comes in with his daily intelligence briefing on the War in Iraq.
She informs him, "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."
"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"
She stands, stunned, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, "Condi, tell me - how many is a brazillion?"
After telling this joke, a group of Americans sitting near us got up and left, one muttering, "That was so inappropriate..."
The moral of the story: when your government spends all its time and money putting its hands in other nations' cookie jars, don't be surprised if when you travel you find people are angry about your country's destructive foreign policy.
Besides, the Germans thought it was hilarious.
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