Re: A few thoughts about the latest scandal.
This is a copy of a message I sent to a radio guy....<br /><br /><br />I'm not the real person, but wouldn't it be great if I were actually her (the female cigarette smoking girl in the Britney Spears photo shoot)?<br />So I ask your indulgence, and pretend I am her ;<br /> <br />This is an open apology to the Iraqi and American citizens.<br />By now, most of you saw my photo shoot with the fabrically-challenged prisoners, with a cigarette and an imaginary gun.<br />How could I have been so blind to your sensitivities!? I humbly ask for your forgiveness. I gave you the impression that I was smoking, I do not smoke, and yet, I flagrantly flashed an un-cuffed cigarette for all the world to see. I never gave a thought for all the young minds I was polluting by appearing with it. Of course, everyone is up in arms about the naked guys. well, we were too---that is, until we arrested ,interrogated and confined them. I am sorry this photo was released in the United States. It was meant to be only released locally, for it's perceived effect on the Iraqi male combatants who viewed it.<br />The cigarette was a prop...The obvious smile of glee , fake gun (hand gesture), and the fact that I am female however, were completely intentional. See, us military types do not like our enemy,and would kill them without hesitation....if only we were allowed to. After 9/11/01, many of us would strap-on our own versions of belt-bombs, and self-detonate in the middle of a pack of " insurgents" (Insurgents being the term you guys like to use--we call them "the enemy"), or other terms I cannot convey here without censorship.<br />I just thought that since my Commander in Chief gave an apology, I should also express my own for that cigarette..By the way, you will note that it wasn't really lit...we wouldn't want the mutants in the photo to end up with cancer or anything. A well-placed electrode maybe.<br /> <br /> Regards, <br /> The "Cigarette Smoking Woman"