Feb 26 2009
Poland Successfully Launches U.S. Patriot Missile System in Preparation for War with Iraq
Sometime in early 2003, the Bush administration delivered a Patriot missile defense system for Poland to be deployed by their military to defend against possible retaliation by the Saddam Hussein regime.
Unfortunately, the defense system was caught up in customs for the past six years and only now is finally being installed.
“That’s the last time we ship through FedEx,” stated the Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski.
Apparently, the delivery was wrongly routed to Germany and held for six months at a Hamburg McDonald’s. Once the manager discovered that the boxes of frozen hamburgers were actually a highly developed missile defense perimeter, he contacted the corporate office.
This led to a long negotiation between the German and Polish governments that ended in a heated exchange over a Big Mac.
The system then went to the Polish border where it sat unclaimed for four years. By chance, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stumbled upon it while picking up a package from the local FedEx station.
Clinton’s office stated, “Thankfully, the system is up and running so we can protect Poland from the rogue Iraqi regime now.
