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2003-12-23 Iraq

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-12-23 10:29:31 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "feuding ... for the last 40 yearsâ but for the last 35 years the Baathists have had their heels on them. What this looks like is merely restarting the dialog of the local political crisis. It needs to be guided. "... ten-day ceasefire to allow them to come to a peace agreement" looks like as good a place to start as any.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-23 10:51:12 AM|| 2003-12-23 10:51:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Ten dead over a CD?

C'mon, guys. And not in the city, huh? If you just have to whack each other, take it out in the desert somewhere, ok?

Posted by mojo 2003-12-23 10:59:57 AM|| 2003-12-23 10:59:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "Drop the FROG launcher!"

A FROG is pretty durn big to be a handheld weapon. Maybe that guy should trade in his turban for a free weight set and angle for a job as circus strongman!

Posted by Mike 2003-12-23 11:07:49 AM|| 2003-12-23 11:07:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, the FROG launcher is just a couple dozen feet too long. And I doubt they would know how to use it anyway.

" Mahmoud, how do you work this thing? "
" How should I know? Read the manual. "
" I don't know how to read French though. "

Posted by Charles 2003-12-23 12:06:36 PM|| 2003-12-23 12:06:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Mojo:

Ten dead over a CD?

Actually, 10 *injured* over a CD. I got a grim chuckle out of the image of 100 of these Bad Boyz(TM) blasting away at each other, yet no deaths.

Only death was a guy shot by a Brit, after the turban forgot Gun Safety Rule #1: Never point a weapon at a real soldier.

Posted by Carl in N.H. 2003-12-23 12:08:52 PM|| 2003-12-23 12:08:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Wonder who the artist on the CD was?

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-12-23 12:29:49 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-12-23 12:29:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "Hands up, Mahmoud! Drop the FROG launcher!"

Subsequently, the launcher and the Frenchman both hit the ground with a sharp THUD.....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-23 12:32:29 PM|| 2003-12-23 12:32:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 "Luckily, all the bad boyz were standing out in the middle of the street, looking heroic as they fired from the hip.

Conscripts of the army of Luckies. I talked to 'em after the action and they were all piss'n and moan'n.

Posted by Lucky 2003-12-23 12:35:26 PM|| 2003-12-23 12:35:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Wonder who the artist on the CD was?

It was one of the "Golden Throat" CDs. Rumor has it they wanted to hear Phyllis Diller singing "Satisfaction" one more time.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-12-23 1:15:17 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-12-23 1:15:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Wonder who the artist on the CD was?

Paris Hilton?

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-12-23 1:53:40 PM|| 2003-12-23 1:53:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Just so everybody can get a really good laugh, a FROG (Free Rocket Over Ground) is a SOVIET rocket, fired from a tracked or wheeled chassis. The FROG-7, which was the major Soviet export model, was mounted on a ZIL-135 8x8 truck that weighed in at about 14,000 pounds. The FROG had a range of about 35 miles, and could carry an HE, Chemical, biological, or tactical nuke warhead.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-12-23 2:28:12 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-12-23 2:28:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 When Nike Air hits the suuk, Basra society will surely unravel.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-12-23 5:49:59 PM|| 2003-12-23 5:49:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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