Iraq must need used cars
I don't know if this was meant to be black humor. I suspect it was. And God knows, we need some humor to blot out the tragedy of the Iraq War, however briefly.
This letter-to-the-editor was printed today in my hometown paper, the Holland (Mich.) Sentinel:
Iraq must need used cars
To the Editor:
It appears that every photo of Iraq shows a burnt or bombed car. How many cars do these people have to be able to blow them up all over Baghdad?
Now I have a suggestion for America. We certainly have an excess of used cars, and any car lot can attest to this overage. Why not ship them to Iraq? Iraq seems a ready market for these cars. They certainly won't last long and we can deliver another boatload to them to detonate. We could supply them for years, which seems about the length of time it will take for Iraqis to come to a resolution of their problems.
"Used cars for oil," that ought to be our motto.
Larry Ritchie
Hamilton