Kenneth Brown
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News Anchor Dan Rather and Peter Jennings, NPR Reporter Cokie Roberts and <br />a U.S. Marine were hiking through the desert one day when they were <br />captured <br />by Iraqis. They were tied up, led to the village and brought <br />before the leader. <br /><br />The leader said, "I am familiar with your western custom of <br />granting the condemned a last wish. Before we kill and dismember you, do <br />you have any last requests?" <br /><br />Dan Rather said, "Well, I'm a Texan; so I'd like one last bowl full of <br />hot, <br />spicy chili." The leader nodded to an underling who left and returned with <br />the chili. Rather ate it all and said, "Now I can die content." <br /><br />Peter Jennings said "I am Canadian; so I'd like to hear the <br />English National Anthem one last time". The leader nodded to a terrorist <br />who studied the United States and knew the music was the same as to 'God <br />Bless America'. He returned with some rag-tag musicians and played the <br />music. Jennings sighed and declared he could now die peacefully. <br /><br />Cokie Roberts said, "I'm a reporter to the end. I want to take out my tape <br />recorder and describe the scene here and what's about to happen. Maybe <br />someday someone will hear it and know that I was on the job till the end." <br />The leader directed an aide to hand over the tape recorder and Roberts <br />dictated some comments. She then said, "Now I can die happy." <br /><br />The leader turned and said, "And now, Mr. U.S. Marine, what is your final <br />wish?" <br /><br />Kick me in the butt," said the Marine." <br /><br />"What?" asked the leader. "Will you mock us in your last hour?" <br /><br />"No, I'm not kidding. I want you to kick me in the butt," <br />insisted the Marine. So the leader shoved him into the open, and kicked him <br />in the butt. <br /><br />The Marine went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled a 9mm pistol <br />from <br />inside his cammies, and shot the leader dead. In the resulting confusion, <br />he leapt to his knapsack, pulled out his M4 carbine, and sprayed the Iraqis <br />with gunfire. In a flash, the Iraqis were dead or fleeing for their lives. <br /><br />As the Marine was untying Rather, Jennings and Roberts, they asked him, <br />"Why <br />didn't you just shoot them? Why did you ask them to kick you in the butt?" <br /><br />"What!?" said the Marine, "And have you three call ME the <br />aggressor?"
