See How They Ran

MSNBC, Newsweek ^ | Aug. 4 issue | Evan Thomas and Rod Nordland

[Radix]

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." And what did Uday Hussein carry to the fight? After a hot and noisy siege last week, American soldiers found, in the rubble near his body, his briefcase. The contents, NEWSWEEK has learned, included painkillers, numerous bottles of cologne, Viagra, unopened packages of men's underwear, dress shirts, a silk tie and a single condom. Uday and his brother, Qusay, also had with them a huge stash of cash, as well as, for some reason, two ladies' purses.

[Radix]

It seems unlikely that this has not been posted already, but I searched and did not find it out here.

[nothingnew]

...included painkillers, numerous bottles of cologne, Viagra, unopened packages of men's underwear, dress shirts, a silk tie and a single condom. Uday and his brother, Qusay, also had with them a huge stash of cash, as well as, for some reason, two ladies' purses.

Just your basic maniacal, bloodthirsty, raping, murderous torturing bastards SURVIVAL KIT. What's the problem?

Watched "We Were Soldiers" for the umpteenth time last nite. Did my heart good.

FMCDH

[RichInOC]

Shoot, a fella could have a purty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

[Rudder]

Check this out excerpted-click for full article^

[RedneckRampage]

I'm late to post on the Uday Quday story. Excellent news. Two down, 30 million to go.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!

Redneck
- If you don't agree with us, you ain't no American!

[T Minus Four]

Hmmmm, Viagra and a single condom? Tsk, tsk, you've just spoiled part of his party animal image.

[jocon307]

Great Post! Great Article! And from MSNBC too. I actually like that web-site, but this piece was especially good. Lots of detail, best I've read on the whole situation, actually.

Agains,thanks for posting this!