Keeping the State Department busy

As if they don't have enough to worry about in the world today, the State Department, US Embassy in Iraq, and I'm sure a bit of the military now has to deal with 3 of America's dumbest tourists who wandered into Iran and got themselves arrested.

I mean, come on... There are mountains all over the world, including a handful right here in the U.S. They just HAD to go hiking on the Iranian border? WTF???

As far as I'm concerned, call off the helicopter searches and the state department's efforts to 'determine the facts in this case' and let them go. With any luck, they'll be jailed for the rest of their lives for being infidels.

One of my favorite parts:
the Iraqi border guards saw three Americans with big backpacks crossing the border, but they did not stop them because they thought Americans were allowed to go anywhere.
Yeah. Right. I'm sure the thinking wasn't so much as 'we thought they were allowed to go anywhere' as much as it was 'HA! Look at those dumb Americans with their big backpacks going to Iran.'

THIS is whyipaytaxes.

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