Er, have all these press outlets that are jockeying for Pfc Jessica Lynch's story forgetting that much of the drama of her capture and rescue were fabrications? I even think the Times was among the newspapers that were willing to bring this up without prefacing it with, "A horde of liberal communist pinko unpatriotic America-hating French-loving cowardly stinking terrorist-aiding cheats and thieves are spreading lies and slander that..."
Oh, right. Suggesting that makes me unpatriotic. Bad Ed. No cookie.
-- Ed
Howdy,
If you want to get even more violently depressed, go read today's (Apr 11) editorial by Nicholas Kristof in the NY Times (at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/11KRIS.html), which begins as follows:
[ ahem ]
A large, angry mob was squaring off in the center of Basra against tense British troops backed by tanks and heavy machine guns, so I asked the Iraqis what they were doing.
"We're here to rob the banks," one man explained cheerfully.
[ /ahem ]
The editorial continues to state that the aforementioned angry mob was getting very upset at the British troops who were not allowing anybody to rob the banks.
Unfortunately, I think the memo this unit received didn't flow down to all the field units yet, since someone else is quoted further down as saying that he asked the British to help prevent armed robbery of people's HOUSES, and was told that the British forces "are not a police force."
The irony in all this is killing me, but not as much as it's killing Iraqis.
-- Ed
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