INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERS CONFERENCE

There was a conference in France

where a number of international

engineers were taking part,

including French and American.

During a break, one of the French engineers

came back into the room saying,

'Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done?

He has sent an aircraft carrier to

Indonesia to help the tsunami victims.

What does he intend to do,

bomb them?'

A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly:

"Our carriers have three hospitals on board

that can treat several hundred people,

they are nuclear powered and can supply

emergency electrical power to shore facilities,

they have three cafeterias

with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day,

they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water

from sea water each day,

and they carry half a dozen helicopters

for use in transporting

victims and the injured to and from their flight deck.

We have eleven such ships...

how many does France have?"