FW: This is hilarious!!

This is cute.
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From: "Heard, Anne" <Anne_Heard@RyderScott.com<@ENRON
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To: Heard, Marie; GENIA HEARD (E-mail)
Subject: FW: This is hilarious!!

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From: Julia Lemon [mailto:Julia_Lemon@Calgary.RyderScott.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:40 AM
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Subject: FW: This is hilarious!!
This is wonderful. Hope you all get a great chuckle out of it.
< 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
< evenarmed 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 warfar

e.
<
< 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!
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