Send in the Brute Squad already!
Apr. 7th, 2003 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakI've been reading online updates about the war.
Most of it I'm not really qualified to pass judgement on. But why on Earth haven't we captured the state-run tv and radio stations yet? The reports mention that the state-run media are still on the air and exhorting Iraqis to ''Rise up against oppression and tyranny. Draw the swords of righteousness in the face of falsehood.''
::shakes her head:: A stop needs to be put to that. Badly.
I'm downright disgusted by reports that the troops sent on a lightning strike to the New Presidential Compound, 'to show we can move about the capitol at will', were helping themselves to items in the compound such as ashtrays, pillows, gold-painted Arab glassware, etc. We're the U.S. We're supposed to be _above_ looting and pillaging conquered areas.
Maybe that's why we haven't taken the media outlets yet. Our troops are too distracted with finding things to take home to their mothers. ::grumble::
I was going to walk down to the local UNICEF office today. Sunday's paper mentioned they're taking donations for a relief fund for Iraqi children. That's something I'd like to take part in, if they're doing anything more active than just accepting checks. My personal brand of pacifism runs more to doing things to mititgate the effects of war than to running round the downtown Federal Building waving ill-made placards or staging 'die-ins' outside NY tv stations. :b Idiots like those make me half-ashamed to be a liberal.
Ahem. Getting back to the point....
Most of it I'm not really qualified to pass judgement on. But why on Earth haven't we captured the state-run tv and radio stations yet? The reports mention that the state-run media are still on the air and exhorting Iraqis to ''Rise up against oppression and tyranny. Draw the swords of righteousness in the face of falsehood.''
::shakes her head:: A stop needs to be put to that. Badly.
I'm downright disgusted by reports that the troops sent on a lightning strike to the New Presidential Compound, 'to show we can move about the capitol at will', were helping themselves to items in the compound such as ashtrays, pillows, gold-painted Arab glassware, etc. We're the U.S. We're supposed to be _above_ looting and pillaging conquered areas.
Maybe that's why we haven't taken the media outlets yet. Our troops are too distracted with finding things to take home to their mothers. ::grumble::
I was going to walk down to the local UNICEF office today. Sunday's paper mentioned they're taking donations for a relief fund for Iraqi children. That's something I'd like to take part in, if they're doing anything more active than just accepting checks. My personal brand of pacifism runs more to doing things to mititgate the effects of war than to running round the downtown Federal Building waving ill-made placards or staging 'die-ins' outside NY tv stations. :b Idiots like those make me half-ashamed to be a liberal.
Ahem. Getting back to the point....
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I've been reading online updates about the war.
Most of it I'm not really qualified to pass judgement on. But why on Earth haven't we captured the state-run tv and radio stations yet? The reports mention that the state-run media are still on the air and exhorting Iraqis to ''Rise up against oppression and tyranny. Draw the swords of righteousness in the face of falsehood.''
::shakes her head:: A stop needs to be put to that. Badly.
I'm downright disgusted by reports that the troops sent on a lightning strike to the New Presidential Compound, 'to show we can move about the capitol at will', were helping themselves to items in the compound such as ashtrays, pillows, gold-painted Arab glassware, etc. We're the U.S. We're supposed to be _above_ looting and pillaging conquered areas.
Maybe that's why we haven't taken the media outlets yet. Our troops are too distracted with finding things to take home to their mothers. ::grumble::
I was going to walk down to the local UNICEF office today. Sunday's paper mentioned they're taking donations for a relief fund for Iraqi children. That's something I'd like to take part in, if they're doing anything more active than just accepting checks. My personal brand of pacifism runs more to doing things to mititgate the effects of war than to running round the downtown Federal Building waving ill-made placards or staging 'die-ins' outside NY tv stations. :b Idiots like those make me half-ashamed to be a liberal.
Ahem. Getting back to the point....
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>_>
I wanted to see if they needed volunteers for more active, direct, methods of helping collect things for the kids. The local office is just down on Vliet St., not at all far from my house. Unfortunately, this morning it decided to snow. And get cold. Right now it's only 30 degrees F out there. And the plow hasn't come down our street once. A bad sign. We usually get plowed early and often, because of our proximity to the local precinct station.
This means I'm stuck home until time to hop the bus to Gilles' for my shift. Bleah.
Well, at least it means I have a perfect excuse to snuggle in bed with 'Where Is Joe Merchant?'.... ^_^
Most of it I'm not really qualified to pass judgement on. But why on Earth haven't we captured the state-run tv and radio stations yet? The reports mention that the state-run media are still on the air and exhorting Iraqis to ''Rise up against oppression and tyranny. Draw the swords of righteousness in the face of falsehood.''
::shakes her head:: A stop needs to be put to that. Badly.
I'm downright disgusted by reports that the troops sent on a lightning strike to the New Presidential Compound, 'to show we can move about the capitol at will', were helping themselves to items in the compound such as ashtrays, pillows, gold-painted Arab glassware, etc. We're the U.S. We're supposed to be _above_ looting and pillaging conquered areas.
Maybe that's why we haven't taken the media outlets yet. Our troops are too distracted with finding things to take home to their mothers. ::grumble::
I was going to walk down to the local UNICEF office today. Sunday's paper mentioned they're taking donations for a relief fund for Iraqi children. That's something I'd like to take part in, if they're doing anything more active than just accepting checks. My personal brand of pacifism runs more to doing things to mititgate the effects of war than to running round the downtown Federal Building waving ill-made placards or staging 'die-ins' outside NY tv stations. :b Idiots like those make me half-ashamed to be a liberal.
Ahem. Getting back to the point....
<_<
>_>
I wanted to see if they needed volunteers for more active, direct, methods of helping collect things for the kids. The local office is just down on Vliet St., not at all far from my house. Unfortunately, this morning it decided to snow. And get cold. Right now it's only 30 degrees F out there. And the plow hasn't come down our street once. A bad sign. We usually get plowed early and often, because of our proximity to the local precinct station.
This means I'm stuck home until time to hop the bus to Gilles' for my shift. Bleah.
Well, at least it means I have a perfect excuse to snuggle in bed with 'Where Is Joe Merchant?'.... ^_^
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Date: 2003-04-07 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-07 03:33 pm (UTC)Well, if it's any consolation, they're just kids and will probably get the living bejesus beaten out of them by their COs, firstly for doing it and secondly for doing it front of a reporter.
Also, considering that it's Hussein's personal property and not some chicken or pig taken from an Iraqi family of eight, I can kind of sympathize with the guys. It's not every day you find yourself in the bedroom of rich maniacal tyrant. If I were there, I'd probably be looking for a pair of earrings for you. ^_-
You know Hussein wears them, the sick perv...
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Date: 2003-04-07 08:50 pm (UTC)But seriously.... kids or no, the lil punks are supposed to be keeping their minds on their mission. I hope their COs make them feel like a planet fell on them. It makes us look bad.