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At least they had an exit strategy.

Posted by buffalo | March 2, 2007 11:35 AM
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This was just a test of the defenses. The real invasion is just around the corner.

I do seriously wished I lived in a country where border crossing is that easy.

Posted by war | March 2, 2007 11:36 AM
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Swiss Miss

Posted by Stan | March 2, 2007 11:46 AM
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I love this story. And I love buffalo's comment.

Can you imagine the dialog?

"Well, Sven, where do you think we are?"
"Holy smoked salmon, I think we might be in Lichtenstein!"
"Do you think they'll notice? Should we ask that farmer over there for directions?"
"I don't know, are they our allies?"

Posted by Mike in MO | March 2, 2007 11:58 AM
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Do they really carry those little pocket knives?

Posted by DOUG. | March 2, 2007 12:08 PM
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With all the saber rattling the last couple weeks over who looks better in lederhosen, and who's cheese is the stinkiest, it was easy to see this coming… the Swiss have abandoned their neutrality and become Europe's most belligerent nation.

They may not have had any ammo in their guns, but surely they each had a Swiss army knife, right? As they yodeled along on their scorched earth campaign they left no can un-opened, no bottle uncorked and no tooth unpicked.

Posted by longball | March 2, 2007 12:54 PM
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Evidently, Rumsfeld's been hired as Switzerland's new defense minister.

Posted by John McCain | March 2, 2007 1:35 PM
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At first, I thought Bush got confused again, and invaded yet another wrong country - but I was expecting it to be Iceland, since he's obviously doing an I theme.

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 2, 2007 2:23 PM
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Mike - Swiss, not Swedish. No Svens in that army.

Posted by schweiz | March 2, 2007 3:18 PM
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Actually, this isn't all that surprising. On a drive from Calais to southern Germany a few years back, we ended up criss-crossing back-and-forth across the Swiss-German border four times, while driving on the same road.

Posted by COMTE | March 2, 2007 3:56 PM
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Bush better attack the Swiss. Letting this go unpunished is simply "appeasement", no better than before WWII.

Posted by him | March 2, 2007 4:30 PM
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What the reporter missed is the fact that the Swiss are responsible for the external affairs of Prince Adam's country. [They have a treaty of mutual defense] I am sure this is not the first time this has happened

Posted by Steven Vroom | March 3, 2007 10:18 AM

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