Acquired Tastes: The Onion Dispatch

Here's another well-conceived sarcastic riposte from America's Finest News Source.

'Well, You Try To Reconstruct Iraq,' Says U.S. Defensive Dept.

WASHINGTON, DC-Responding to recent criticism of reconstruction efforts in Iraq, the U.S. Defensive Department released a statement to the public Monday suggesting that perhaps they could do better, since they're obviously so smart.

The petulant, defensive tone that the faux press release adopts is pitch perfect, and the humor is charmingly self-deprecating and positively dripping with elegant irony. One of the better recent efforts of The Onion. Here's some more "defensive" goodness:

"Well, it looks like you American people have figured it all out, then," the statement read in part. "There's no need for the old government to do anything, because the citizens know just how to handle this whole reconstruction-of-Iraq thing. Well, go ahead! If it's so simple, and if you're so smart, then what's stopping you? Come on."

"Oh, gosh!" the statement continued. "Wait! It looks like Iraq is a whole big country! And it seems that someone just fought a war there, to oust a despotic regime! So, gee, this might take a while, huh?"