Now I'm ensconced in a trendy part of town, almost beneath runway#2,
I want to move to a poorer part of town, or of the world,
rich comfortable homogeneous whitebread folks make my gut ache...
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dien bien phu 50th coming up, see it day by day

'I believe Senor's approach is similar to the tactical one taken at Waco against another "messiah." It resulted in many deaths and a legacy that led us to the "commemoration" atrocity in Oklahoma City'
dneiwert

monkey.org
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From the webbing belt holding up ‘rip-proof’ combat trousers, a Gerber multi-tool dangles beside a Leatherman knife. Another gun, usually a Glock 9mm, is held in a black nylon holster halfway down one thigh. Spare clips of ‘ammo’ and a commando dagger are sheathed on the other leg. The knees are reinforced with strap-on rubber pads.... ‘Look at those pooftas,’ he splutters. ‘They might as well wear a fucking sign saying shoot me!’
Sam Kiley Spectator
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Brig. Gen. Mark "I gotta go" Kimmitt.. deputy head of operations in Iraq

crushed by the burden of running a massacre

NYT "The American command has been keen to show a willingness to negotiate as a way to prevent already-high anti-American sentiment from swelling "
Really? ..or maybe they were brought to a halt by fear?
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17April US occupation forces have tried to storm the northern Iraqi
city of al-Qaim, but have been repelled by resistance
fighters, ...Aljazeera
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Eyewitness in Fallujah
Jo Wilding Sunday Herald 18Apr04
a child of about 10 is lying with a bullet wound to the head.
A smaller child is being treated for a similar injury in the next
bed. A US sniper hit them and their grandmother as they left
their home to flee Fallujah.
...The children are not going to live.
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In Fallujah's darkened, empty streets, U.S. troops blast
AC/DC's "Hell's Bells" and other rock music full volume from a
huge speaker, hoping to grate on the nerves ..recalls the Army's
use of rap and rock to help flush out Panamanian leader Manuel
Noriega ..the FBI's blaring progressively more irritating tunes in an
attempt to end a standoff with armed members of the Branch
Davidian cult in Waco, Texas in 1993. (19Apr93)
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Now you see these improvised fighting machines all over Iraq. Once painted with that solid olive drab color, they are now patchworks of red, black and green, with random pieces of metal sticking off everywhere, bristling with guns. They look incredibly bizarre. I call it the Mad Max Rolling Sideshow
..inside the Green Zone..A lot of very attractive young Iraqi women are brought in from other parts of Baghdad, to do jobs such as translation, secretarial, personal assistance, etc...
..sometimes the Americans holed up in there get courageous and make a break for it. When they just can't stand being without real American fast food any longer, they get in armored convoys and head for Baghdad Airport, where an authentic Burger King is now located. Generally nobody gets near the airport; the Americans have it sealed off. But inside there is a real live Burger King, staffed by local Iraqis duded up in the official polyester pants and paper hats...
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Pat Buchananan - in your heart you know hes right...
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The last time U.S. troops experienced a two-week loss such as this one in Iraq was October 1971
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weird Science...
Comet impact effect, roll your own...