NEW YORK (Reuters) – Last Friday, presidential candidate John Edwards proposed a new international organization that would fight terror by talking about it a whole lot.

“Well *I* heard that not only can’t Osama hold a job, he’s hung like an acorn, too.”

According to Edwards, the Gossip and International Tale Mongerer Organization (GITMO) would “allow members to voluntarily share financial, police, customs and immigration intelligence. Together, nations will be able to track the way terrorists travel, communicate, recruit, train and finance their operations”.
“Everyone knows that endlessly bitching about something,” said Edwards, “beats the hell out of actually taking concrete action. The ladies know what I’m talking about.”
Edwards said his brilliant idea came to him after reflecting on his own life. “It occurred to me,” mused the Democratic candidate, “that nothing has hurt my feelings more than finding out that people said mean things about me behind my back. When that happens, I’m WAY too busy curled up in a corner crying to place roadside bombs or fly planes into buildings. There’s absolutely no reason to believe that GITMO wouldn’t have the same exact effect on terrorists.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi embraced the plan with great enthusiasm. “As a backbiting old hen of several decades, I can assure you that there is no greater weapon of mass destruction than a juicy rumor when spread by prattling, long-nosed magpies. Even the most powerful man on Earth can be utterly destroyed with a little defamatory scuttlebutting. Like when the Democrats started telling everyone that Bush lied about Iraq, which was an impeachable offense for which he… ok, well, that wasn’t a good example, but you get the idea.”
President Bush was dismissively unimpressed with Edwards’s plan. “We already have a GITMO for combatting terrorism, and unless Silky Pony’s crack-headed notion includes big-piped toilets for flushing Korans, it’s going to be about as useful as a bucket of warm spit – except without the bucket – just like every other idea that queefing little pansy’s ever had.”