-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings Traitors,
:-) At 8:02 AM -0800 on 3/31/03, James A. Donald made a splendid attempt to re-appellate Marc "Lucky Green" Briceno to "Commie Red". I was always suspicious of that boy. Never trust anyone with a continental accent, I always say. I *knew* I shoulda asked him for his passport when I had the chance :-): > It seems likely that the Iraqi leadership is recycling old pictures > of a previously downed (or crashed) copter as a newly downed > copter.. Give 'em hell, James, right on and all, but a minor nit here. Yup, it was our chopper. The Big Three (and more important, Fox News) said so. Even CENTCOM, um, eventually, said "fair cop", but the thing was probably brought down by legitimate Archie-up-the-skirt -- or, more likely, mechanical failure -- and probably *not* brave proletarian sheepworkers with their trusty AKs, AllBlessingsToAllahPeaceBeOnHim. We saw the prisoners paraded on the Iraqi tube, so it must be true :-), and the USAF dropped a big ole smartbomb on the thing to keep the various local kulakerie from picking up the recognizable bits and selling it back to us after the war as parts. I can see the "Uncle Abdul's Genuine US Surplus" store in the mini-mall out on the Karballa frontage road of the Barbara Bush Highway. As it is, the thing will probably gross more revenue as paperweights, anyway... [BTW, here's a nice military theater map, for those of you who haven't purchased a program and want to sing along: <http://www.mp2kmag.com/iraq.war.map/03_26/Iraq_War_Map.gif>. God, I *love* the internet...] Color me brainwashed, or something, but, I really don't want to see splurged body parts, furrin-or-notherwise, on the tube in prime-time, lurking above the horizon of my TV-Table's extra-large double-Hawaiian pizza. All that live-in-realtime gore must be an A-Rab thing, or at least a property of people whose women don't shave their underarms and take a bath every other week whether they need it or not... In the meantime, I'm awaiting a special delivery to Saddam's Wall of Death(tm), FOB the Florida panhandle: "Hello, Mrs. Franks. Can Tommy and Mr. MOAB come out and play?" Sure hope they can get the bugs worked out in time... Cheers, RAH Who also expects that if and when the Saddamites trot out the strong detergents our MOPP-suits will beat theirs, and they'll kill more of themselves than us. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBPojHKsPxH8jf3ohaEQIW9ACfaZ/TstxAGTLXYEWEIS1fC189RzUAniV5 uSncYGCNfESbc0FkOTl8ZqWG =HFYv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
