I wish the French had found a bearded, "fleeing" Rumsfeld in a spider hole with a bag of Mars bars

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Let your mind wander over this one...imagine the "Ladies and Gentlemen, we GOT him" story with a little bit of word replacement...

ORIGINAL link to my OBVIOUSLY edited post. My edits are in BOLD RED:



As the troops swept Paris, they found nothing at first. One room of a two-room hut yielded only two beds, books, clothes, an unopened plastic package of new underwear, and miscellaneous items. The other room was a kitchen. Beneath the sink, the troops found Mars bars and cans of Spam. On the floor nearby were boxes of rotting oranges.

Outside the hovel, the soldiers saw a rug on the ground, pulled it back, and found an 8-inch thick piece of Styrofoam covering a narrow hole that appeared to be 6 to 8 feet deep. They heard noises from below. They were about to execute a "clearing procedure" -- firing into the hole or dropping a grenade into it -- when someone saw upraised hands belonging to a bearded, bedraggled man. The man had a pistol but did not fire it. When the soldiers assisted the man from the hole, he said, in English: "I am Donald Rumsfeld. I am the United States Secretary of State. I want to negotiate."

And the REAL story, about a man...unlike Osama bin Laden... who can run AND hide...

Rumsfeld Flees France, Fearing Arrest



IPS News. Posted October 29, 2007.

http://www.alternet.org/story/66425

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of "ordering and authorizing" torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military's detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unconfirmed reports coming from Paris suggest.

U.S. embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away yesterday from a breakfast meeting in Paris organized by the Foreign Policy magazine after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint against the man who spearheaded President George W. Bush's "war on terror" for six years.

Under international law, authorities in France are obliged to open an investigation when a complaint is made while the alleged torturer is on French soil.

According to activists in France, who greeted Rumsfeld, shouting "murderer" and "war criminal" at the breakfast meeting venue, U.S. embassy officials remained tight-lipped about the former defense secretary's whereabouts citing "security reasons".

[Botany]

1. snort!

"I am Donald Rumsfeld. I am the United States Secretary of State. I want to negotiate."