- BAGHDAD -- "Six days
ago, I was in an armed convoy driving through the McCain-safe streets of
Baghdad when a non-existent rocket, made right here and not in Tehran,
blasted into a truck carrying fifteen GIs. We had to stop, could not
turn around because there were vehicles behind us, frantically trying to
flee in all directions, and so I saw what were the shredded remains of
all fifteen soldiers littering the street and smoldering. Not the sort
of thing to look at, or smell, after breakfast or before lunch. There was
not a word of this in our media at home and the official casualty lists,
posted on the net didn't mention any of them. There are fifteen that never
got reported. Fellow in the next building from me does the casualty reports
for transmitting back to the States and he says they publish the names
of one in ten. This has been a very bad month with over 300 known dead!
That doesn't cover those with faces missing or legs up on a local roof,
feeding the birds. This place has become a living hell, what with occasional
snipers shooting our men inside the "really safe" Green Zone,
setting off bombs in the "heavily guarded" Iraqi government compound
and blowing up the hand puppet legislators at lunch, mortar rounds from
the "defeated insurgents'" slamming down at all times of the
day and night, and so on.
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- This crazy Bush 'surge 'is not working because we have
had to withdraw all our troops from outlying provinces and they have been
replaced with local religious crazies who shoot anything that moves. The
insurgents have virtually destroyed the power grids so Baghdad gets electric
power a few hours a day (at the very best); the water supply has been "interfered
with" so the locals get shit-infested water from the river but we,
who are Bringing Bush Democracy to the benighted heathens have our own
generators and our own water, carefully filtered of shit and body parts,
so we can cheerfully, and proudly, show the world how better the locals
are off with our brand of vicious tyranny as opposed to Saddam's. They
ought to bring Bush and Cheney over here, strip them buck naked and use
them as decoys and then we'd see a rapid withdrawal for certaion! And hear
loud cheers as the GIs would be struggling with the locals to pick up presidential
and vice presidential body parts as souvenirs."
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- http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2672.htm#004
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