For YesBut’s Image posted on the 20th June 2007 Ozlady suggested the caption: -
“Guys – shut up, I’m trying to read this sign . . .’U-N that’s un, D-E-R, that’s der . . .”The photo suggested to me the following story:
Whether by coincidence or destiny conditions seem to come together at the right time at the right place, and the world is irrevocably changed. Yet the apparently same conditions can occur, but karmically it is not meant to be and even though the potential existed for a quantum change, events pass unnoticed - like ships passing in the night, . So it was when the photograph was taken.
After months of agonising Ben had decided to leave his wife of twenty-two years, to live with his eighteen year old secretary. His friends would probably say he was suffering from middle life crises. Who knows, probably not even Ben. What he did know was he deeply regretted leaving his job as a double glassing window salesman to join MI6, the British Foreign Secret Service. On the first day after training his head of section asked him if he knew anything about WMDs. Ben couldn’t believe his ears, what a start. Did he know anything about WMDs? There was nothing he didn’t know about window measuring devices. To be asked to prepare a report on WMDs was a dream come true. But to make it even better, his head of section said he wanted him to analyse intelligence data to determie whether Iraq had WMDs.
Analyse intelligence reports, why bother? Of course Iraq it had WMDs. During the Iraq Iran war when both the US and UK were supporting Saddam Husein, the company he worked for had assisted in setting up a double glassing window factory just outside Basra. It had been his responsibility to set up a sales force. It was a matter of tremendous pride that he had managed to acquire and distribute sufficient WMDs to the Iraqi sales force, so that they could respond to any sales enquiry in 25 minutes. When writing his report he emphasised the response time.
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