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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.

Story Roundup

Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

Situation Report

A State Department map that relocated most of Africa, one ambitious government travel card, and 5,200 medical students moved from dorms that definitely do not have mold.

John Bolton’s book revealed to be just 400 pages about bombing Iran

John Bolton’s book revealed to be just 400 pages about bombing Iran

WASHINGTON — John Bolton's tell-all book has been revealed as 400 pages of a madman rambling about the need to bomb Iran, sources report.

“Initially we tried to prevent the release of Bolton's book, The Room Where It Happened,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. “We were worried it would contain classified information. Although Bolton had access to that information, he was too stupid to understand it.”

Critics claim The Room Where It Happened is meandering drivel that seems to have been ghost written by a child.

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