Anyone remember this hot piece from the NYT a-way back in 2003?
In the giddy spirit of the day, nothing could quite top the wish list bellowed out by one man in the throng of people greeting American troops from the 101st Airborne Division who marched into town today.
What, the man was asked, did he hope to see now that the Baath Party had been driven from power in his town? What would the Americans bring?
”Democracy,” the man said, his voice rising to lift each word to greater prominence. ”Whiskey. And sexy!”
My buddy and I laughed about it a lot and it became something of a joke among folks. “You need anything from the store?” “Yeah, would you mind picking up some democracy, whiskey and sexy?”
Anyway, now that we have liberated Iraq and brought to them the riches of our American cornucopia, I thought I’d mention that great quote in relation to this great piece from the San Antonio Express-News about the ways in which we Americans are bringing sexy back in Iraq. You know, billions and billions of dollars of corrupt contracts laced with kickbacks and scams. Also sexily-named e-mail accounts. Read the whole thing (the e-mail account stuff between the sensual lovers is at the end), but I love this:
“We’ve always heard that the contractors were in bed with the government,” said Scott Amey, general counsel for the Washington-based watchdog the Project on Government Oversight. “This may literally prove that.”
Hat Tip: Chappy
