Oh, Swell

This should bolster our image in the Middle East.

At a time when security in Afghanistan is worsening and the administration is trying to shore up liberal support for the war, State Department contractors guarding the U.S. embassy in Kabul are working in a “Lord of the Flies environment,” a Washington watchdog group told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday.

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An e-mail from one of the guards described parties on days off, during which guards and their supervisors urinated on themselves and others and ate potato chips and drank vodka from the cracks of buttocks.

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Pictures accompanying POGO’s letter corroborate at least some of the allegations.

  Politico

Keee-rist. Anybody still wonder why they don't want us over there?

And why are State Department contractors, and not U.S. troops, guarding the embassy, as if I didn’t know.

And, hey, shouldn't a journalist use the anatomical term for "cracks of buttocks": gluteal cleft? I mean, if you're going to use the word "cracks," you might as well just say butt cracks. Cracks of buttocks sounds like a cooking term. Or a dish. I'll have the cracks of buttocks flambéd in vodka, please.

Here's one of those pictures.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.