Forget about the CIA.
     Our mercenaries are in trouble
Unless somebody hires them back,
      Blackwater's lost its daily double.

First Iraqis kicked them out;
     accused the lads of murder.
But murder's still their specialty,
     so what could be absurder.

Fortunately Hillary
     knows what it takes to win
So some taxpayer dollars have
     continued rolling in.

But while all this was going on,
     Aetna had them searching Twitter
For applicants whose frequent Tweets
     might indicate they're fitter.

Regrettably they carried their
     mercenariness too far.
Tweet tampering got the lads suspended.
     . Some read better than they are.

But missing pre-existing ailments
     like allergies to cats,
Fearing Aetna's Palin Panel
     would authorize cat bats?

Well, unlike Cheney's CIA,
     Blackwater draws the line.
Doing pussycats is out.
     Canaries and those Blue Dogs? Fine.

One prospect they're considering:
     North Korea's Kim Jung Il
But they're very worried that
     it first must be OK'd by Bill.

There's a no-bid contract pending,
     but does NASA want the trouble?
Re-hired guns moonlighting as
     pallbearers for the Hubble?

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
On Twitter @PBoondoggles
8/24/09

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