News Mad Libs!

From a news story, quoting President Bush trumpeting his success in Iraq:

"While (Iraqi President) Saddam (Hussein) supported a massive war machine, Iraqi schoolchildren went without textbooks, and sometimes teachers went unpaid."

Remember Mad Libs? Those books full of incomplete sentences where you had to fill in nouns, verbs, and adjectives to make wacky all-new sentences? These days, the news is full of Mad Libs! And the best part is, they are true! Watch...

"While Power-Hungry Dictator supported a massive war machine, an oil-rich backwater state's schoolchildren went without textbooks, and sometimes teachers went unpaid."

Now, let's fill it in with some different words!

"While (American President) Dubya (Bush) supported a massive war machine, Oklahoma schoolchildren went without textbooks, and sometimes teachers went unpaid."

See? Both statements are true! And the funny thing is, Oklahoma and the United States isn't suffering under a crushing UN embargo that has killed 500,000 of those same kids!