Rick Santorum: Iraq War = Lord of the Rings.

Republican Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania explained how the Iraq war helped America avoid terrorist attacks by using analogies we can understand: LOTR.

Embattled U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said America has avoided a second terrorist attack for five years because the "Eye of Mordor" has instead been drawn to Iraq.

Santorum used the analogy from one of his favorite books, J.R.R. Tolkien's 1950s fantasy classic, "Lord of the Rings," to put an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq into terms any school kid could easily understand.

"As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else," Santorum said, describing the tool the evil Lord Sauron used in search of the magical ring that would consolidate his power over Middle-earth.

"It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S.," he continued. "You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States."

No, not an Onion article, it's from The Herald Standard: http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17336307&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6 - via Cynical-C


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