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2021-10-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2021-10-19 02:16|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 The image somehow went from http to https, which Rantburg can't display.

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2021-10-19 02:58|| 2021-10-19 02:58|| Front Page Top

#2 he doesn’t say what happened to the old woman who was too feeble to move

Why, she was raped to death by the ARVN.
What's your point?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-19 04:41|| 2021-10-19 04:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Image fixed. I just opened the article as if to edit, then closed it again, which did... something.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-10-19 07:10|| 2021-10-19 07:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Within minutes after we sprayed, the plants began to turn brown and wither.

My neighbor uses something like that in his pine straw after a rain. It's in an unmarked container. He immediately changes the subject when the topic of weeds comes up. Should I be concerned ?

Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-19 07:16|| 2021-10-19 07:16|| Front Page Top

#5 The herbicide used was most likely paraquat. On a sunny day the weeds wilt pretty much right after spraying and turn black soon after. There is no antidote for human poisoning so in the Caribbean it has the nick name of East Indian divorce. Plants dying from it have a paraquat smell to them as they die. It is also rain fast in under a minute.
In the USA it is a restricted use pesticide so somebody using it in the yard is breaking federal law.

Posted by Vinegar Spolusing6485 2021-10-19 07:55|| 2021-10-19 07:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Herbicide. Dick Nixon had em spray the pot fields with it

Posted by Frank G 2021-10-19 08:50|| 2021-10-19 08:50|| Front Page Top

#7 First highlight makes absolutely no sense. Incoherent no sense, that is.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-10-19 11:08|| 2021-10-19 11:08|| Front Page Top

#8 #7 First highlight makes absolutely no sense. Incoherent no sense, that is.

It means Colin Powell commanded a unit burning down civilian villages. You know, like the Nazis did in the Ukraine.

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2021-10-19 11:47|| 2021-10-19 11:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Passive tense for one in command?

I would pay good money to watch people attack a field of onions with bayonets. Even withered corn would put up a good fight. Manioc, Cassava, is a root crop.

Shit, the Athenians watched the Spartans wear themselves out attacking the Olive Groves.

I guess my question would be, if the scorched earth policy was so complete and sophisticated during his tenure in Vietnam, how did the Afghan Poppy Fields survive?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-10-19 12:08|| 2021-10-19 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 It means Colin Powell commanded a unit burning down civilian villages.

Kinda like Portland?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-19 12:26|| 2021-10-19 12:26|| Front Page Top

#11 It's from Colin Powell's autobiography.

Typically people don't fabricate tales of themselves committing war crimes when they get to write the story of their own lives. They'll lie about it.

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2021-10-19 12:50|| 2021-10-19 12:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Yet another statement to his character.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-19 13:10|| 2021-10-19 13:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Chemical warfare.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-10-19 14:31|| 2021-10-19 14:31|| Front Page Top

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