Don’t Panic: Is the U.S. about to invade Yemen?

Yemen could be set to join Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia on the list of countries Americans plan to bomb until its residents like us

For many Americans, welcoming a new year means champagne, dancing, discharging firearms skyward, college football, collards, black-eyed peas, Black Eyed Peas, Dick Clark and/or Ryan Seacrest, electrified mechanical apples, a midnight kiss, feeling sad about not getting a midnight kiss, vomiting, and headaches.

As if that wasn’t enough fun for one holiday, Americans are getting an extra special New Year’s gift for 2010 – a new front in the never-ending War On Terror™!

That’s right, folks, it looks like Yemen is set to join Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia on the list of countries Americans plan to bomb until its residents like us.

Thank you notes for this thoughtful gift should be addressed to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab c/o Federal Correctional Institution, 4000 Arkona Road, Milan, MI 48160.

Mr. Abdulmutallab is the alleged Underpants Bomber, the man the U.S. government believes tried to blow up a Detroit-bound passenger jet on Christmas Day using explosives hidden in his Fruit of the Booms.

Abdulmutallab isn’t from Yemen. He’s from Nigeria. But bombing Nigeria isn’t in the cards.

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(Photo Illustration by Andisheh Nouraee)