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, "Shahan, Ray" <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Ok folks, this is nothing more than humor.  It's meant to bring a smile
>(even an out load laugh), and if it elicits anything other than a smile
>or laugh from anyone that reads, then please - just flame me.
>
>One more time - this is humor, and nothing more.  If you don't have a
>sense of humor, or your sense of humor is absent today, then
>delete/close this email.
>
>
>
>After numerous rounds of: "We don't even know if Osama is still alive,"
>Osama himself decided to send George Bush a letter in English, in his
>own handwriting to let him know he was still in the game.
>
>Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a real strange,
>perhaps coded message:
>
>370HSSV-0773H
>
>Bush was baffled, so he emailed it to Condi Rice. Condi and her aides
>had no clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it so
>it went to the CIA, then to NASA. With no clue as to its meaning, they
>eventually asked Britain's MI-6 for help.
>
>MI-6 cabled the White House: "Tell the President he's holding the
>message upside down".

He did much the same at a press conference.

A reporter asks him 'Mr President, did you have a really good reason for 
invading Iraq ?'

Bush turns to his aides, and after a whispered conversation, they pass 
him a piece of paper with three characters written on it.

Bush reads it, turns back to the reporter, and in his best Presidential 
voice, declaims triumphantly
     'We didn't have just one good reason - we had 710 !'
-- 
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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