“It must be nice in Iraq, because some of you keep coming back again and again,” - Stephen Colbert
Colbert told his guest, Gen. Ray Odierno, he felt “a little intimidated” by him, not because he was he top U.S. commander in Iraq, but because it felt like he was “interviewing Shrek.” Odierno is an imposing bald figure at 6-feet, 5-inches tall.
Odierno said the military is “not yet ready to declare victory” in Iraq and that there was a little more work to be done for long-term stability.
“I, Stephen Colbert, by the power invested in me by basic cable, officially declare we won the Iraq war,” Colbert said, as his audience broke out into applause.
The interview was interrupted when President Obama appeared on large television screens. The commander-in-chief told his general it was time to “cut that man’s hair.”
With white electric hair clippers in his hand, Ordierno stood up and began shaving Colbert’s trademark thick dark hair. The troops stood and cheered as a female member of Colbert’s staff finished the job.
