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The Axis of Evil is now without a Hub

By Patrick S. Garcia

wesupportthevets.com staff writer

 

With the capture of Saddam Hussein  there is a worldwide search for a replacement to the center of the Axis of Evil.. I think everyone agrees that Osama should be designated as the new hub. After all, he hides in the same five-star caves as Saddam does and probably looks very similar in appearance as Saddam did when we dug him up out of the outhouse pit. It was a outhouse pit –they just cleaned up the story for the press by calling it a spider hole. Was he ever lucky that had not moved the privy over that new hole they dug—I mean there were (what?) about  30 4^th Inf guys  there on that  and they had been our all day looking and searching. Any of us that have been chauffeured in a 4X or a humvees knows that when you stop the platoon heads for the nearest….spider hole.

 Well anyway I  think we were lucky to be able to identify ol Saddam so quickly.. He could have been tossed into the local detox cell and let go in the morning except he forgot the one part of his cover that he needed for that. He should have been sitting down there with a bottle of Thunderbird in a brown paper bag beside him not that AK-47 and the $750,000 in the suitcase. That brings up a question in my mind – the seven and a half hundred grand—don’t these dictators on the lam use gold anymore? I always thought when you went into the bunker like Hitler, etc all the other despites in history, you took gold. Where was he going to go on just seven hundred and a half  K?  Even ( what was his name?  whats-his name Jones) took more than that with him when he bailed out of that 737 over Oregon years ago. Speaking of income, now you know for instance , that farmer who owns the little houses there is in for a lifetime of income. Considering the born-again entrepreneurs that have emerged from the battlefield rubble in this country, it probably took this date picker about thirty seconds to make a sign for the front driveway—“See the place where Saddam was captured” just  about ten feet from the one that said “ Local  smoked camel jerky--.50 cents”. I mean for real that this event is going to change the local economy in a heartbeat.

The competition for the new hub of the Axis will be fierce I’m confident. When President GWB established the  moniker for these guys, Kadaffi and Arafat were miffed that they were not included. The next big news I hope will be that they found Osama hiding in similar conditions. When Saddam was confronted he reportedly said to the PFC pointing the M-16 at his lower extremity, “Don’t shoot—I am Saddam Hussein, the President and  Ruler of the Country of Iraq”. So what is Osama going to say? I gotta tell you that he has an identity problem here. He isn’t the President or Ruler of any country or anyplace like that so he can’t say he is. Maybe he will say “Don’t shoot—I am the other part of the hub?”

 Patrick