This is great.  Not a bad idea.

-----Original Message-----
From: Hosanna, Mickey
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 3:26 PM
To: Burdick, Liz; LeJune, Susie; Hill, Susan; Hinkle, Jill
Subject: FW: sign me up


This is great!



> Take all American women who are within five years of menopause - train
> us for a few weeks, outfit us with automatic weapons, grenades, gas masks,
> moisturizer with SPF15, Prozac, hormones, chocolate, and canned tuna -
> drop us (parachuted, preferably) across the landscape of Afghanistan, and
> let us do what comes naturally.
>
> Think about it. Our anger quotient alone, even when doing standard stuff
> like grocery shopping and paying bills, is formidable enough to make
> even armed men in turbans tremble.
>
> We've had our children, we would gladly suffer or die to protect them
> and their future. We'd like to get away from our husbands, if they haven't
> left already. And for those of us who are single, the prospect of finding
a
> good man with whom to share life is about as likely as being struck by
> lightning. We have nothing to lose.
>
> We've survived the water diet, the protein diet, the carbohydrate diet,
> and the grapefruit diet in gyms and saunas across America and never lost a
> pound. We can easily survive months in the hostile terrain of
> Afghanistan with no food at all!
>
> We've spent years tracking down our husbands or lovers in bars, hardware
> stores, or sporting events...finding bin Laden in some cave will be no
> problem.
>
> Uniting all the warring tribes of Afghanistan in a new government? Oh,
> please ... we've planned the seating arrangements for in-laws and
> extended families at Thanksgiving dinners for years ... we understand
> tribal warfare.
>
> Between us, we've divorced enough husbands to know every trick there is
> for how they hide, launder, or cover up bank accounts and money sources.
> We know how to find that money and we know how to seize it ... with or
> without the government's help!
>
> Let us go and fight. The Taliban hates women. Imagine their terror as we
> crawl like ants with hot-flashes over their godforsaken terrain. I'm
> going to write my Congresswoman. You should, too!
>