23 February 2007

You know your country is in trouble when:

The UN has to open a special branch just to keep track of the chaos and bloodshed, UNAMI.

Abovementioned branch cannot be run from your country.

The politicians who worked to put your country in this sorry state can no longer be found inside of, or anywhere near, its borders.

The only thing the US and Iran can agree about is the deteriorating state of your nation.

An 8-year war and 13-year blockade are looking like the country's 'Golden Years'.

Your country is purportedly 'selling' 2 million barrels of oil a day, but you are standing in line for 4 hours for black market gasoline for the generator.

For every 5 hours of no electricity, you get one hour of public electricity and then the government announces it's going to cut back on providing that hour.

Politicians who supported the war spend tv time debating whether it is 'sectarian bloodshed' or 'civil war'.

People consider themselves lucky if they can actually identify the corpse of the relative that's been missing for two weeks.

Source: Riverbend

4 comments:

Herbinator said...

Hear, hear!

Herbinator said...

Actually, the "hear, hear" was supposed to be in your previous post. Mia culpa. But your blog is great, keep it up.

Evil Spock said...

You know your country is in trouble when:

Karlo has way too much material for Swerve Left.

Instead of terror alerts, I use your blog to measure how deep the shit the country's in . . .

Karlo said...

In a few years, the Green Party will be running the country: then I can retire!