Posted on 04/27/2003 1:43:18 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Chanting "Saddam no, Bush yes," some 200 Iraqi prisoners of war were let go Sunday at the coalition's main internment camp in the desert near the southern port of Umm Qasr.
The men, many of them barefooted, shook hands with the American soldiers guarding the camp before boarding buses and trucks to be driven to nearby Basra, southern Iraq's largest city.
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Hmm. Must have been listening to Jesse Jackson speeches.
If he thought he wouldn't be going back to Iraq, I assume he means he figured he was going to the U.S., like some of the deserters/defectors did after 1991.
It is an interesting phenomena that many of America's military foes get this idea.
I have a captioned photo from about a month after D-Day of a few platoons of Polish soldiers (conscripted into the Wehrmacht) standing on the beach smiling and joking while under armed supervision.
According to the reporter, they were happy because they were under the impression that the Americans, having conquered them, would now resettle them in America.
I guess we should take that as a compliment.
Saleh, a junior Iraqi army officer who is the father of four, said he was taken prisoner at the Qadisiya Dam at the beginning of the war that toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein.
"I gave orders to my five men not to fight and we surrendered," he said, his eyes red from the sand. "Americans were coming for our own good. ... What has Saddam done for us? I'm 30 and I haven't enjoyed life -- no justice, no piece of land, no car."
Thanks for the post.
We will see video of this on the major news networks won't we? Yah right.
They're too busy looking for Iranian Shiite troublemakers to film.
Hmmmm....sounds like a peace protester. 8^D
"Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Support your answer with a proof."
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law
(gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed)
or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So, we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.
As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell.
Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.
Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
(1) If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
(2) Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Therese Banyan during my Freshman year, "That it will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then: (2) cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic.
The student got the only A.
The Chronicle published it, but did they write it? It's an Associated Press piece.
I think we could have done without the ethnic stereotypes :)
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