Halliburton and the carrots
Bogota, Columbia –Bobzaguy
In an unusual development in the strife-torn South American country of Columbia,
the giant war machine known as Halliburton seems to be growing food. Over the
past 6 months, on advice from a high-level undisclosed source, the company has
planted the equivalent of 2500 square miles of garden carrots to replace the
growing of cocoa plants in conjunction with the US and Columbian governments'
drug replacement policies.
Halliburton has signed on Sr. Fabio Ochoa, a reformed leader of the Medellin
drug cartel, and Sr. Alejandro Bernal Madrigal -- known as "Juvenal" or "Junior"
– to oversee the planting and harvesting of the carrots. Shipping of the
vegetables will be handled by the US Secretary of State. Sec'y Rice is
considering hiring Paul Wolfowitz as a possible head of the shipping department.
He has expressed interest in the job as it will allow him flight opportunities
for South American cities as well as Mideast locations which will remain
undisclosed.
“It’s just
like Teddy Roosevelt said,” Bush recently told Columbian carrot factory workers
on their break. “You gotta use the stick, and then the carrot. But the carrot’s
lead, you see? That’s the major thing. That’s called ‘diplomacy.’”
In
BushSpeak: "We'll support your efforts to say to the Iranians, you have a choice
to make: You can continue to do policy that will isolate you, or there's a
better way forward, so that it was the sticks-and-carrots approach." The
president continued saying, "I wanted to tell that Imadinnerjacket fellow that
you can draw more flies with honey than with vinegar, but I didn't think he
would be knowledgeable to such a complex thought.”
Now that
Bush has misplaced his "shock and awe" stick, he will be compelled to rely on
the carrot as a price system payable to the peasants. He plans to rewrite his
lesson of history – it can only be that a carrot-and-stick approach fails when
the punishment is non-existent. And Halliburton plans to supply tons of carrots
at prices that will rival their profits on the Iraq war front. With oil
approaching unheard-of prices, they plan to reap the financial benefits
available from the formerly lowly carrot.Their motto: "When you mine for gold,
sometimes you find it growing right in front of your nose."
President
Bush went deeper into the fray of carrots and sticks with his discussion of the
nuances of the debate. "It can get boiled down to the simple 'carrot-OR-stick'
verbal formula, but I see it as more complex. I want to say 'carrot AND stick,'
– it's still a choice – just not the one they thought they were going to get." |
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director General Mike Hayden to ensure that CIA administered torture is
appropriate as related to the desired information that CIA agents are trying
obtained from detainees. 
