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It strikes me that April Fools Day is a serious problem for national security.
Imagine you're a crazed dictator with a sizable, mobile army and you want to invade the US. You could just go invade any old day of the year, with lots of explosions and olive drab and whatnot. Or you could dress up your army in clown outfits use use poisoned/highly acidic cream pies for weapons -- and invade on April 1. It would take a day before anyone believed there actually was such an invasion. More than enough time to establish a very strong beachhead.
The more I think about this, the more sense it makes. I bet Saddam was planning something like this -- hence the administration's insane rush to war. It also explains Powell's rather poor performance at the UN. We must have had all kinds of evidence of Iraqi clown-related activities, but it all looked too silly to present to the Security Council. Even Ari Fleischer wouldn't be able to keep a straight face giving a press conference on suspected smuggling of big clown shoes from North Korea to Iraq.
Wow, I wasn't even planning on working an Ari Fleischer dig in. I'm really getting out of control here.
So, yeah, clowns.
Imagine you're a crazed dictator with a sizable, mobile army and you want to invade the US. You could just go invade any old day of the year, with lots of explosions and olive drab and whatnot. Or you could dress up your army in clown outfits use use poisoned/highly acidic cream pies for weapons -- and invade on April 1. It would take a day before anyone believed there actually was such an invasion. More than enough time to establish a very strong beachhead.
The more I think about this, the more sense it makes. I bet Saddam was planning something like this -- hence the administration's insane rush to war. It also explains Powell's rather poor performance at the UN. We must have had all kinds of evidence of Iraqi clown-related activities, but it all looked too silly to present to the Security Council. Even Ari Fleischer wouldn't be able to keep a straight face giving a press conference on suspected smuggling of big clown shoes from North Korea to Iraq.
Wow, I wasn't even planning on working an Ari Fleischer dig in. I'm really getting out of control here.
So, yeah, clowns.
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