Pentagon official resigns
Washington - John Poindexter, the official who used to be Ronald Reagan's national security adviser and until recently oversaw a plan for the Pentagon to run a terrorism futures-trading market, is resigning under pressure. It is assumed it is pressure from less insane individuals than him!
Donald Rumsfeld, although not speaking directly to the press, is rumoured to 'understand what Poindexter was understands, which is that it's difficult for any work with which he might be associated to receive a dispassionate hearing'.
In English, the official is saying, "Poindexter is a wacko!"
Apparently, Poindexter didn't only have one iron in the fire, a Texan term meaning, "He was working on more than one plan".
His agency, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), was also working on a theory that Iraq's 'weapons of mass destruction' had been painted with invisible paint and were thus unable to be seen by American troops. It seems that Poindexter and his troop of loonies were hung up on the proof of the theory because they could not fathom how invisible paint would be applied since, once you dipped the brush, it too would become invisible.
And finally, but barely soon enough, DARPA was trying to develop a portable hole. Yes, the same portable hole seen in Warner Brothers cartoons of the 40s and 50s.
Unfortunately, Poindexter and his band of quacks created the hole and then spilt the invisible paint on it. The paint fell through the hole and the hole became invisible. Neither item was recoverable.
Given this turn of events, Poindexter must have felt that trading in terrorism seemed rather tame. |
