Not Your Sweetie

How the Axis of Evil Was Formed by Party_like_it_is_1984
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Staffer 1: "Axis" is *great*! I love "axis", but we need a third country. Suggestions
anyone?

Staffer 2: How about Burma? They use slave labor...?

Staffer 3: Not evil enough. Plus that's Cheney's baby.

Staffer 4: Liberia? They torture and execute people...?

Staffer 2: No can do. That's Pat Robertson territory. It's a good kind of evil.

Staffer 3: Nicaragua?

Staffer 1,2,4: Don't go there, man! That is *so* 1980's!

Staffer 2: Sudan?

Staffer 1: Maybe, but for balance we shouldn't have them *all* in the Middle East...

Staffer 3: Does rhyming help? "Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Attack"


Staffer 4: The President does NOT rhyme. We are not about to go native here.

Staffer 1,2,3,4: ....?

Staffer 3: How about North Vietnam or Korea?

Staffer 1: I'm pretty sure that North Vietnam doesn't exist anymore. Bob - check on
that to be sure. It would be better if it was *East* Korea - that sounds much more
sinister, but, oh, well, it's getting late...

The real story is no less absurd. David Strum, the author of the "Axis of evil" speech
(fired because his wife bragged about putting words in Jr's mouth) is telling that the original "Axis of Hatred" became "Axis of evil" (to satisfy our taste in comics) and that Korea was added because a third country was needed to form an axis (?)
As long as we know that a nucklear crisis was created for the triumph of "mot juste"