Posted on 10/21/2007 2:56:25 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
(WASHINGTON, DC) DNA removed from black and white hair follicles has revealed the identity of a stray cat found in Iraq as that of Socks, Bill and Hillary Clinton’s White House cat. Apparently, the war-bedraggled tabby was found feeding on scraps outside of a reporters’ compound in Baghdad, Iraq.
In a story that New York Times war correspondent John Burns broke last week, reporters have witnessed young Iraqis regularly feeding as many as 60 stray cats with platters of leftover rice and lamb. Burns is quite sure of the count because, as surging American troops were fighting in Baghdad and al-Anbar province, he tallied “how many cats we had seated for dinner.”
While Burns adopted a stray he’d heard mewing one night in 2005, and saw it through two litters of kittens in 18 months while suicide bombings occurred “even miles away,” blogger Throckmorton Strethers had his eyes fixed on something else, a gaunt, fur-matted black and white cat that seemed to howl louder than the rest of the strays.
Strethers, founder of Two Eyes On Iraq (www.twoeyesoniraq.com), a website dedicated to reporting on the reporters who report on the Iraq war, began noticing a resemblance to Clinton’s famous White House cat, Socks. “As he fattened up, and as his hair grew out, I kept thinking, ‘Isn’t that socks?’” Strethers said.
The cat’s behavior revealed another clue. “His head was always first in the bowl,” Strethers recounted. “And he had a way of ingratiating himself with the other reporters in the compound by slinking around the legs of the guy who had the biggest leg of lamb.”
During Bill Clinton’s presidency, Socks occupied the role of “first pet,” and was often carted to schools and nursing homes. Critics, however, contend that the Clinton’s used Socks to soften Hillary’s reputation as an uncaring shrew.
Critics buttress their argument by pointing out that at the end of Clinton’s second term, Socks was dumped on Betty Currie, Bill Clinton’s personal secretary, and, except for a brief photo op with Currie in 2005, hasn’t been seen since.
Buckhead, the handle of the mysterious poster who exposed as forgeries the documents used by Dan Rather to try to impugn Bush’s service in the National Guard while mainstream reporters ignored it, has likened Strethers’s find to his own. “I caused Dan Rather to resign in disgrace, and this guy’s revelation is going to cover that wicked witch Hillary up to her eyeballs in kitty litter.”
However, it’s hard to tell judging by the reaction from potential voters. “I cannot believe for one minute Mrs. Clinton would send Socks to the war in Iraq,” said Sarah Nuttles, who was buying a pro-Hillary button in New York City’s Washington Square.
New York City resident Jonathan Birnbaum disagreed, calling Hillary, in an obscenity-based tirade, “a war monger from the get-go,”. “She signed on to that EXPLETIVE DELETED Bush’s EXPLETIVE DELETED war and sent our EXPLETIVE DELETED high school dropouts to EXPLETIVE DELETED fight a EXPLETIVE DELETED war EXPLETIVE DELETED Hillary EXPLETIVE DELETED her insides EXPLETIVE DELETED cat to Iraq.”
No one has offered a reasonable theory explaining how Socks came to Iraq in the first place, nor have the Clintons yet to come forward to claim him. Socks remains impounded at Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC.
Pssst - let the terrorists know when and where she’s going ...
Now imagine her trying top take care of 300 million+ people.
the damn cat is more patriotic than Bill or Hill.
Bravo...
kitty ping
Dewd, you only have half a screen name!
Poor Socks...
Hillary didn’t know a thing about it! George W. Bush sent Socks to Iraq hoping he’d get his furry little head blown off for the president’s amusement. (/s)
I wonder what Jonathan Birnbaum's DU screen name.
Yeah, the cat came back the very next day
Oh, the cat came back
. They thought he was a goner but the cat came back
He just couldn't stay away, away, away, hey! Hey! Hey!
He gave him to a man going way out west
He told the guy to give him to the man he liked best
The train jumped the track, then it skipped the rail
No one survived to tell the gory tale
But the cat came back the very next day
Oh, the cat came back
They thought he was a goner but the cat came back
He just couldn't stay away, away, away, hey! Hey! Hey!
He gave him to a man goin' up in a balloon
He told him to give him to the man on the moon
People still ponder 'bout the accident today
But the cat came back the very next day
Oh, the cat came back
They thought he was a goner but the cat came back
He just couldn't stay away, away, away, hey! Hey! Hey!
He gave him to a man goin' out in a boat
He sincerely made sure that the cat wouldn't float
He bagged it and he gagged it and he tied it to a rock
But the cat just smiled as he watched the boat sink
And the cat came back the very next day
Oh, the cat came back
They thought he was a goner but the cat came back
He just couldn't stay away, away, away, hey! Hey! Hey!
Old Farmer Brown said he'd shoot the cat on sight
He loaded up his shotgun with nails and dynamite
The cat walked into sight, and then there was a boom
Pieces of Ol' Brown were found all over town
And the cat came back the very next day
Oh, the cat came back
They thought he was a goner but the cat came back
He just couldn't stay away, away, away, hey! Hey! Hey!
Ummm...is this a joke?
Buckhead, the handle of the mysterious poster who exposed as forgeries the documents used by Dan Rather to try to impugn Bush’s service in the National Guard while mainstream reporters ignored it, has likened Strethers’s find to his own. “I caused Dan Rather to resign in disgrace, and this guy’s revelation is going to cover that wicked witch Hillary up to her eyeballs in kitty litter.”
Hmmm. We’ve been busy again. Haven’t we, Buckhead?
Ummm...is this a joke?
Of course not! If it were a joke, Ge0ffrey would have said; “A horse walks into a bar and the bartender asks ‘why the long face’...”
;-)
I have just celibrated the Boston Red Soxs ALCS and had to come to see this! =^..^=
The cat knew too much.
Fit-To-Print-News CORRECTION after rereading reporter’s handwritten scribbles:
Strethers says that he hopes to emulate Buckhead, the mysterious poster who exposed as forgeries the documents used by Dan Rather to try to impugn Bush’s service in the National Guard. “He caused Dan Rather to resign in disgrace, and I think that my revelation is going to cover that wicked witch Hillary up to her eyeballs in kitty litter.”
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