Mar. 6th, 2003 @ 03:53 pm (no subject)
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Snickersome: Well, gee, human shields leaving Iraq, eh? Who'd'a thunk it? Surely just because they might have been stationed near actual strategic targets they couldn't complain overmuch? As one respondant put it:
I will stop calling them tourist when they stop taking all this pampering from the Iraqi government. Did I tell you about the tours? Today was Babylon day. You are really missing it, the cheapest way to do the Iraq trip you have wanted to do but were too scared. And I have a tip for all freelance journalists who are not getting their Visas. Join your colleagues. It's the best way to get past the visa thing, every third one of these "shields" will be writing an article somewhere. Hurry contact your local "war tourism" travel agent.
Query: Have I mentioned lately I have zero patience for fuzzy-thinking?
Mar. 6th, 2003 @ 04:24 pm (no subject)
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Raed It: I just realized that my last link goes to the blog of a native Iraqui guy named Raed. Rather amusing read. With his near-blasphemous rants, disgust with so many things, and mockery of the Human Shields(tm), he sounds a lot like an Arabic me:
Since we are talking about money today was payday. It is amazing what the sentence “we’re sorry but you know how things are at the moment blablabla” can do to your paycheck, in one single year I have gone down from $200 to $100 and hit rock bottom at $50, in retrospect deciding to go back to living with my parents was the wisest decision I have made for quite a while. My friend G. is getting half his salary in money and the rest in alcohol, really no joke, but good imported stuff which we wouldn’t buy anyway. His fatcat-filthyrich boss turned seriously Muslim and is giving away his stash of the devil’s beverages. Good for us, I say.
You've just got to love that.
Mar. 6th, 2003 @ 08:50 pm (no subject)
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France: There needs to be a good summary of the entirety of French military history. Amusingly enough, there is. I think my favourite bit runs thus:
World War I - Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein." Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.