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2003-07-27 Iraq

Disguised U.S. Soldiers Reportedly Escape From Iraq

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-07-27 11:58|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Now this is a scream! I used to belong to a group that bought souvenirs for the poor legs who were stuck out in the dunes after Gulf War I (the AF pukes all lived in town - in the infamous Khobar Towers). Most of the poor grunts never got a chance to see the glories of Al Khobar and its crown jewel: the Al Shula Mall - an overstatement if there ever was one, believe me. Anyway, the point is: the numero Uno choice, the overwhelming choice by a landslide souvenir was the Arab headgear. Everyone wanted a dishtowel & fan belt set. So that's what we bought. Tons of the shit. There was no doubt it was a hit at the next Halloween party after they got home.

This twinkie dress merchant, Saeed al-Aidany, is prolly selling the stuff like he sez - but in his tiny little mind it would never occur to him that it was because our troopies think it's some seriously funny shit. So he's doing what all small-brained creatures do: assuming they would do what he would do - run like hell.

As for the truck driver, you know he was paid in greenbacks, if the story's true. So, Abdul Amir al-Hasnawi, show me, dude. $450 in $USD? Hey vets - how long would it take for you to come up with that much scratch (not to mention in a war zone) when you were tooling around in the Big Green Machine? Several months at least. And Mr al-Hasnasal would've done it for $45, not to mention $450. I like the part about them being black - IOL thinks this will make it more believable. Heh, what jerkoffs.

This is either "tell the reporter what he wants to hear" silliness - or it was created from scratch by the "journalist." And, icing on the cake, it is brought to you by Al Jizzwadi's erstwhile competition for the most outrageous BS they can dream up to peddle to the idiot A-rab Street, the National Enquirer of the A-rab press (and that's really saying something): Islam OnLine.

What a hoot!

Posted by PD 2003-7-27 12:26:37 PM|| 2003-7-27 12:26:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I remember "reuters" running a similar story during the Kosovo campaign in '99. You'll recall we lost no pilots (praise to Allah!)...

Anywho, "reuters" found a couple of Greeks (sympathetic to the Serbs) who insisted that the US was shipping home 20-25 coffins a day because these Greeks had seen them! Therefore, we were lying about no combat losses and the plucky Serbs had us on the run!

ILO is propaganda, "reuters" is gullible, and our enemies, foreign and domestic (see Green Party above) will clutch at any straw.

Posted by JDB 2003-7-27 1:29:50 PM|| 2003-7-27 1:29:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 3 words for the so-called "journalist": Pa-the-tic!

In the words of that great philisopher, Bugs Bunny: Watta maroon!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2003-7-27 1:44:25 PM|| 2003-7-27 1:44:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 JDB - I didn't know that little goodie - Thx! Ah, how short the memories of the truly and uniquely gifted ungrateful can be... the US defending the hapless helpless Muslims of Bosnia from the Serbs whilst all of Arabia and Islam played the ~~fiddle~~ lyre (or is that liar?)...

Barbara - (snicker) I lovs Bugs. "Is you is or is you isn't my baby?" Mel Blanc had a way with werdz, no? And then there was Foghorn Leghorn...

Posted by PD 2003-7-27 1:53:18 PM|| 2003-7-27 1:53:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Daffy Duck's great comment after seeing the rich widow ducks son:

"Cute, like a stomach pump!"

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-7-27 2:01:56 PM|| 2003-7-27 2:01:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Foghorn after an encounter with Prissy Hen:

"That girl, I say that girl reminds me of the road between Dallas and Forth Worth ---- no curves!"

Posted by Steve White 2003-7-27 3:16:58 PM|| 2003-7-27 3:16:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 SW - Wasn't that sweet when they actually removed the toll? Imagine that: build a toll road, collect tolls till it's paid off, turn it into a free public highway, exactly as advertised. Phreakin miracle! Re: Prissy Hen - musta looked like Olive Oyl, but with a bigger beak, eh?

Posted by PD 2003-7-27 3:25:08 PM|| 2003-7-27 3:25:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 In a relates story an unnamed Iraqi source said that the Americans were cooking their stomachs at the Baghdad Airport. I had someone pick me up a towel and fanbelt, but at a Dining Out somebody stole it when I got drunk :-(

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-7-27 3:38:03 PM|| 2003-7-27 3:38:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 What this story actually confirms is what a backward view of the world the shopkeeper must have. Where does he think these 2500 soldiers will escape to? Does he think they can just cross the dusty border from Mexico into the US, like perhaps from Pakistan into Afghanistan, then go happily home thinking nobody will bother them so they can chalk everything up to experience and forget about it? Will they stay in the arab states, convert to Islam, and pilgramage to Mecca every year? C'mon....

Posted by Rafael 2003-7-27 4:01:57 PM|| 2003-7-27 4:01:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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