[bicycle thug]

Of course I knew. I understand your humor which has very real impatience to it. I was a paratrooper many years, black, too hard bitten humor for public consumption keeps military people sane in the pursuit of 'accomplishing the mission.'

I would dearly love to hear the barracks humor of paratroopers in Iraq. Much of that you could never print here and I sure do miss it.

Getting Osama bent Laden and Sodomy Hussein are very important missions to accomplish. At least they have to run and hide or wear burkas and they dare not show their mugs. I wouldn't want the United States single mindedly out to reel me in. And I know they are really hating life right about now.

And you know the egos on either of those two will flush them out into the open eventually. There are only so many hidey holes, and neither of those idiots have the brains or common sense to make like BD Cooper too damn long. ;-)

[Chad Fairbanks]

I hear ya man (and thanks for serving, by the way) - My humour, on the rare occasion, tends to be morbid and dark, but I try not to do that too often because normal people don't often understand and get reaaaaal offended ;0)

The closer we get to these guys, the more they must be hating it. By taking out those closest to them, we are succeeding in that mission. Either Saddam will turn up because he can't stand being in hiding anymore, or whether he turns up because he eats a bullet, doesn't really matter. He'll turn up. And I can't wait to see what happens when he does.