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Monday, March 31
What’s especially great about these kind of wars is that we can watch them from the safety of our living rooms without worrying for a moment about being caught in the gunfire or hit by shrapnel and, like all the best TV, America’s overseas adventures are usually much the same. However, Operation Desert Storm 2: Your Ass Belongs To Me, Saddam doesn’t look nearly as much fun. Not only are some of the best characters like Stormin’ Norman Schwartzkopf not even back for this one, the fucker’s actually going around saying it doesn’t sound like a very good idea at all. Worse still, it looks like us white folks might actually get hurt this time too for a change. Did you know more US troops died in so-called friendly fire ten years ago than were actually killed by Iraqi soldiers? Seizing Baghdad promises to be a lot more complicated and messy than most people are expecting and, kind of worryingly, Johnny Foreigner is starting to counter Western aggression with wide-screen terror tactics of their own too. If September 11th and the Bali attack were payback for the Muslims who died in the name of western foreign policy over the last decade, I wonder how they’re going to react when we carpet-bomb the heart of the Muslim world and install a Methodist called General Tommy Franks as Saddam’s interim replacement? Last week, the Pentagon announced very matter-of-factly that it intended to shatter Iraq “physically, emotionally and psychologically” by dropping 800 cruise missiles on its people over two days (more than twice the number launched during the entire 40 days of the 1991 Gulf War). Their chief strategist, Harlan Ullman, boasts that they’re going for “The Hiroshima Effect” and politicians all across the world fear that this is merely the first stage in a takeover of the entire Middle East. Says Mark Millar Saturday, March 29
West German attorney Godfried Bueren believed passionately thar the sun's hot exterior surrounds a cool, temperate interior where plant life and possible higher forms of life dwell. In the early 1950's he offered a prize to anyone who could disprove his theory. When the German Astronomical Society took him up on it, scientists thoroughly demolished his argument. Bueren, however, refused to accept the outcome and would not fork over the money. The society sued him successfully for it. -From my little desk calendar Thursday, March 27
One man made it clear that coalition troops and their aid were welcome only on Iraqi terms. "You are here on the condition that you liberate Iraq," said resident Ali Salman Hussein, 35. "We don't want you to occupy us, we want you to liberate us and leave. If you don't leave then we will hate you." We are the only target in America. Nobody thinks of getting even with Waco, Texas. Just New York. And the government in Washington cares less about New York than anyplace in the country. The Republicans never had George Bush campaign in New York. Why should they? All we have is a lot of blacks and Jews and half the Caribbean, and Republicans don't want them around. Cprl. Mark Hylen, 22, of Brownsville, Calif., at one point trained his M-16 on an armed man running toward him. He fired without hesitation and saw the man drop. "It didn't feel like much; he was shooting at me," Hylen said evenly when asked later what it was like to kill another human being for the first time. "It was kind of nice to get it out of the way." He paused for a minute, then appeared to dismiss whatever thought was emerging. "Screw him," he said. "He died." Tuesday, March 25
Boo! Oh! By the way, you may have noticed that I've added what I'm Reading/Listening to lists on the side over there. Follow the links to see my thoughts about each item (still in progress), or to see where each creature lives and how to take it home with you. all Judges in Amerika ARE traitors, they all hold titled of Nobility (esq.), from a foreign power (England, BAR Association, B.A.R. stands for British Association Registry) and all they're doing is serving the Crown as administrators of the debt owed by the United States Incorporated to the International Monetary Fund. The men, a few children, and one woman spoke to at least three soldiers who got out of their vehicles. Many shook the soldiers' hands or embraced them, and some kissed the soldiers' cheeks. God bless you, thank you very much," said some of the villagers, according to translations by Kuwaiti TV. We do not want the oil. Take it. Take it. But build the country. We want to live, we want to travel, we want to walk. It cannot always be the pressure of war, war, destruction, destruction," one villager said. "Enough, enough. We are fed up, fed up. Long live the soldiers." At one point, a soldier tore large pieces from a large poster of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi president. One villager took off his sandal and repeatedly hit what remained of the painting of Saddam's face. The tape showed a group of about eight adult men and children dancing and singing, "Saddam, your days are numbered. Saddam, your days are numbered." Monday, March 24
Northwoods Document With the 60's came the Cuban missile crises. A Soviet military build up on the island of Cuba threatened the western hemisphere. They needed an excuse to invade Cuba. They actually put the plan to paper. They proposed blowing up airliners full of American people saying the casualty list in U.S. Newspapers would provide a helpful wave of ignination [sic] to fuel their plan. The plan was that of General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer chairman joint chiefs of staff, he got approval for his plan all the way up to the secretary of defense. President Kennedy was not amused. In the plan they elaborated on how they could bomb Washington D.C. and blame Cuba, attack marines at guantanimo bay using U.S. Army soldiers dressed up as Cubans. |
