[Captainpaintball]

I want a war in Iraq fought by MacArthur from the past, not by McFly from Back To The Future.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Good headline:

"BOOM. Oh, nevermind anyhow. We'll come back later..."

[HighWheeler]

Hmmmmmmm, reminds me of a song, the only pop song ever to use the word "minarets" in the lyrics:


Rock the Casbah
The Clash
1983

Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin’ to the top
The sheik he drove his cadillac
He went a’ cruisnin’ down the ville
The muezzin was a’ standing
On the radiator grille

Chorus
The shareef don’t like it
Rockin’ the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef don’t like it
Rockin’ the casbah
Rock the casbah

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy casbah sound
But the bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail

Chorus

Now over at the temple
Oh! they really pack ’em in
The in crowd say it’s cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a wiff
Of that crazy casbah jive

Chorus

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the casbah way

As soon as the shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare

As soon as the shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed

Chorus

He thinks it’s not kosher
Fundamentally he can’t take it.
You know he really hates it.

[dts32041]

Wimp II anyone?

[hosepipe]

Starting to look like the democrats are in charge... Suggest finding the officers that are democrats and moving them to Germany.

Iraq is starting to appear like Mardi Gras in Tijuana except no beads and the only ones having fun are those drunk on unity. Some uniters and not dividers are running this war. Seems to me a little more dividing and breaking things and a lot less uniting would work nicely.

Iraqis don't unify well. Import some Libertarians to show them how to do anarchy correctly. Thats it. Deport the democrats cause their stupid or they would'nt be democrats. And import some libertarians because they want exactely what the Iraqis have now. And stand back and watch as they all get high together.. Might not work but at least the democrats will be in Germany and we can call it the Doritos and Dip for oil program.. The tourism from Hollywood would rise and we could nuke several problems at once. The democrats in Germany could see what a real Nazi looks like and could recognize the feminazis when they get back to America the Effeminate.

[ASA Vet]

dozens of people, mainly youths, smashed four Humvees which had been set ablaze,
stripping them of weapons and equipment.

A boy climbed on top of one of the vehicles and beat it with a stick.
Another youth, wielding an American rifle, denounced Mr Bush and Mr Bremer.
"This is for the madman Bush, for the madman Bremer," he shouted.

Wonder where these Baghdad based thugs got the idea they could get away with such actions?
Didn't they understand Fallujah?
We solved that problem when we promised an "overwhelming response."
They better be careful or we'll promise again.

[neutrino]

the marines called in helicopter gunships to level a 60-ft mosque minaret

Best news I've heard this week!