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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 02:10 PM Jun 2014

Moderate Syrian Rebel Application Form

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/06/moderate-syrian-rebel-application-form.html

Welcome to the United States’ Moderate Syrian Rebel Vetting Process. To see if you qualify for $500 million in American weapons, please choose an answer to the following questions: ...

If I were given a highly lethal automatic weapon by the United States, I would:
A) Only kill exactly the people that the United States wanted me to kill
B) Try to kill the right people, with the caveat that I have never used an automatic weapon before
C) Kill people only after submitting them to a rigorous vetting process
D) Immediately let the weapon fall into the wrong hands

I have previously received weapons from:
A) Al Qaeda
B) The Taliban
C) North Korea
D) I did not receive weapons from any of them because after they vetted me I was deemed way too moderate ...

Complete the following sentence. “American weapons are…”
A) Always a good thing to randomly add to any international hot spot
B) Exactly what this raging civil war has been missing for the past three years
C) Best when used moderately
D) Super easy to resell online


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Moderate Syrian Rebel Application Form (Original Post) KamaAina Jun 2014 OP
Excellent. moondust Jun 2014 #1
"Best when used moderately" countryjake Jun 2014 #2
bump... nt Jesus Malverde Jun 2014 #3

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
2. "Best when used moderately"
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 06:38 PM
Jun 2014
Complete the following sentence. “American weapons are…”

C) Best when used moderately



And this:

I consider ISIS:

D) The people who will pick up my American weapon after I drop it and run away



There is no appropriate smiley for Andy's humor. Right on is all I will say.


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