November 21, 2003
This is a Joke, Right?
With all of our money and technology, how is this happening? Rockets on donkeys hit major Baghdad sites? So, not only have we got the human population turning against us, but it would seem we’ve also pissed off the Iraqi donkeys. To think, I was worried about not winning the hearts and minds of the human population! I never knew donkeys could be trained to fire missles, let alone to know the difference between two opposing sides in a war!
Thankfully, our troops did stop 2 two donkeys near the Italian Embassy because “[n]either of those donkeys had fired its deadly load” but, I do have some trouble thinking of whomever is behind this as a “mastermind”. Ingenious, yes. Mastermind? Well, I guess they did come up with the idea that strapping missles on donkeys would get past the U.S. troops and be able to inflict damage.
Posted by huxley75 at November 21, 2003 02:28 PMI am sure glad this showed up in the Democrats column. I would have suspected a prank posting if it had shown up in the Elephant’s column, if you get my fauna drift.
Back in July, I posted an article on my weblog, Sabotage May Produce America’s Next Viet Nam, indicating that Iraq could cost the Americans immensely if only a few hundred guerilla’s were committed to preventing peace from following the end of military operations. I was obviously too short sighted to recognize at the time that it would also take a few more asses than the one that started the war in the first place.
Posted by: David R. Remer at November 21, 2003 05:25 PMDavid - I was thinking of making a similar “ass” comment myself and didn’t even think of the fact that this post is in the appropriate column!
After I posted this, a friend of mine (who grew up during the Viet Nam War and who served in the Army in Germany during the early 80s) made a similar comment comparing al Qaida and the Iraqi guerilla tactics to those used by the Viet Cong. My first thought: “My Lai”. Unfortunately, despite the comedic value of donkeys with rocket launchers, I’m afraid it’s only a matter of time before a jumpy soldier (and I’m guessing it will be an American) torches the wrong house, pulls the trigger too soon, or worse, and there’s a CNN camera there to catch it.
I doubt FOX News would even admit the event happened - they’d put Geraldo on the case and nobody would believe it was true. You know, like the moon landings and Elvis’s death.
Posted by: huxley75 at November 21, 2003 09:16 PMSuch collateral damage and uninteded deaths and injuries as you discuss have been occuring, and while international media give such stories high visibility for its importance on the outcome in Iraq, American media (so called, liberal) appears to be underplaying it to inexplicable levels.
Posted by: David R. Remer at November 24, 2003 02:33 PMAnd Rumsfeld (et al) think that foreign news sources (especially Al Jezeera and Al Arabia) are playing up too much so a U.S.-version of the Islamic news sources are being created? Sounds like a “Ministry of Truth” to me…
Posted by: Huxley75 at November 24, 2003 02:39 PMAnyone interested in Iraq I urge to go buy Nov 24 New Yorker. Excellent 24 page article; best Ive read (for slightly different and slightly funnier slant this month’s Atlantic has PJ O’Rourke’s take - also interesting; also has good profile of Gen Abizaid)
Posted by: david at November 26, 2003 03:08 PMBush sucks. Let’s send that amature back to Texas and the Jack Daniels bottle. Bush won’t even read documents placed in front of his face. Bush go home !!!
Posted by: Mryau at March 24, 2004 03:39 AM
