See How They Ran (Uday & Qusay Found with $100, Cocaine & Viagra at Raid)

Newsweek ^ | July 27, 2003 | Evan Thomas and Rod Nordland

[Recourse]

See How They Ran By Evan Thomas and Rod Nordland, Newsweek

In his famous short story "The Things They Carried," writer Tim O'Brien shows that you can learn a great deal about men by what they take into battle.

IN THE CASE OF the platoon he described slogging through the rice fields in 'Nam, those items included love letters from home, grenades and land mines, lucky charms, insecticide, copies of Stars and Stripes, fingernail clippers, bags of marijuana, bandages, psyop leaflets and tanning lotion. "Often," O'Brien writes, "they carried each other, the wounded and the weak

[Sacajaweau]

Viagara...you use that to keep your gun operable, right?

[Cultural Jihad]

"(Uday & Qusay Found with $100, Cocaine & Viagra at Raid)"

While the $100 is really $100 million, where in the article is cocaine mentioned?

[ex-Texan]

This MSNBC links is a great example of everything that is wrong with the Internet: Slow down load into an advertising hell hole, pop up ads proliferate, huge ads dominate the center of the page, tracking bugs and cookies are loaded, and when you get snared and cannot read the report -- more B.S. comes out of pop up hell.

[mass55th]

A single condom...

On the run and hoping to get lucky.

[bytesmith]

For starters, install a pop-up filter. There are several. I use Pop-Up Cop and did not see one pop-up when viewing the article. I agree that pop-ups have made the WWW obnoxious.

[Sacajaweau]

Did the circle on his wallet look old??

[Pokey78]

Pop up ads are bad, but what I really hate are those flash animation ads!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

$100? I heard that it was $100 million.

[CindyDawg]

Why two purses?

[Yaelle]

Didn't read the article but having read enough about Uday in the past, I know the Viagra was his. He was "affected" by the attempt on his life some years back and was beside himself that his raping days were over. Said he needed 4 or so new women a day. Unhappily for the young Iraqi virgins and wives of his torture victims, Viagra came on the scene soon thereafter and allowed Uday to get back down to "business."

[Lazamataz]

I am getting to the point that if it is an excerpted article, I'm going to skip it.

I'm on a slow dialup line. I simply cannot afford the load time.

[Ranger]

The article mentions pain killers, not coke. Additionally its $100 million, not $100. 1 condom was right. Guess he didn't get lucky though the 2 purses makes you wonder?

[ex-Texan]

I have a good one installed. But it signals me when I enter pop up hell.

[johniegrad]

I agree with you 100%. People can make all the technical adjustments they want with pop-up filter, etc. However, why excerpt an aricle from MSNBC which you know is going to be shitty to begin with only to have to face all the advertising bullshit that goes with it. Shame on this poster.

[ecurbh]

[johniegrad]

Luck has nothing to do with it.

[Trust but Verify]

If you have never read, "The Things They Carried" you should. It is a sobering look at the daily life-and-death struggle of soldiering.

[Rudder]

Hey, look at the pictures of all this (excerpted, click for full article^)