BAGHDAD (The Borowitz Report)—In
a development that offers a faint glimmer of hope for Iraq, both Sunnis
and Shiites are finding common ground in the view that former
Vice-President Dick Cheney seriously needs to shut up. In the days following the publication, this week, of a Wall Street Journal
op-ed piece about Iraq that Cheney wrote with his daughter Liz, hatred
of the former Vice-President has, to the surprise of many, become the
first thing that Sunnis and Shiites have agreed upon in centuries. Iraqi observers in recent days have reported seeing both Sunnis and
Shiites reading the Cheneys’ op-ed then tearing it to shreds in a rage. “Cheney is an ass!” a Sunni merchant reportedly exclaimed in a Baghdad
market on Thursday, to the resounding cheers of several Shiites nearby. “Historically, it’s been challenging to find anything that Sunnis and
Shiites agree on,” said Sabah al-Alousi, a history professor at the
University of Baghdad. “That’s why their apparent consensus that Dick
Cheney needs to shut the hell up is so significant.” Visiting Baghdad on Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry said that the
joint Sunni-Shiite calls for Dick Cheney to shut his pie hole were a
cause for optimism. “If Dick Cheney winds up being the one thing that brings Sunnis and
Shiites together, the United States owes him a debt of thanks,” he said,
adding that the two sects’ view of the former Vice-President was also
shared by the Kurds.
Photograph by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images.
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