To: redfish who wrote (605289 ) 8/18/2004 10:46:53 AM From: Andrew N. Cothran Respond to of 769670 INDECIPHERABLE CHATTER TURNS OUT TO BE BUSH Trying to Confuse Evildoers, President Says A stream of completely indecipherable chatter that intelligence agents had been trying to decode for the past three and a half years has turned out to be the utterances of President George W. Bush, the White House confirmed today. The intelligence community, who had long thought that the mangled, incomprehensible messages might be those of a terror mastermind, had been frustrated in their attempts to decode them because they appeared to be spoken in a language bound by no discernible rules or logic. But at a White House press briefing on Sunday, Mr. Bush revealed that he in fact was the source of the indecipherable chatter, telling reporters that he had emitted the perplexing messages on a near-continuous basis in an effort to confuse the enemy. “If the evildoers in the world do not think that I am not trying to not confuse them, they are sorely mistaken,” Mr. Bush said. Mr. Bush’s strategy of intentional unintelligibility has made him almost impossible to understand even by his closest advisers, but it may yet pay big dividends in the war on terror, says intelligence expert Lawrence K. Devore of the University of Minnesota. “If al-Qaeda has been listening in on the President’s chatter, they must be extremely confused by now,” Dr. Devore says. “At the very least, their heads probably hurt.” Elsewhere, new questions arose about the current orange terror alert after it was revealed that the most recent music file found on the seized al-Qaeda computer was “Dancing Queen” by ABBA.politicalhumor.about.com