To: christopher who wrote (5936 ) 10/10/2001 4:48:58 PM From: Bucky Katt Respond to of 48461 They are burning our happy-meal hearts & minds gifts!! Like I said, a total waste of time & money, but hey, it's just tax dollars anyway..and if/when we run out of tax dollars to spend, well, just crank up the presses..> Afghans burn U.S. food airdrops: reports PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 10, 2001 (Kyodo) -- Afghan civilians in Vardak and Ghazni provinces close to Kabul have burned food packages air-dropped by the United States in protest against U.S. air strikes, according to reports from Afghanistan. A source in Peshawar, western Pakistan, citing witness accounts from Afghanistan, said several hundred people in each of the two provinces gathered the packets of rice and fruit dropped by the U.S. military, piled them up outside their homes and torched them. "No need for pity," some of them chanted. "We will fight America to the end." On Tuesday, the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salem Zaeef, denounced the U.S. food drop policy, calling it "an insult" to the Afghan people. _________________________________________________________ Don't they know a highly paid group of specialists put these happy meals together to give them the highest nutritional value for their dining pleasure?? And don't they know that same group of highly paid specialists made them meat free & even had alcohol free personal single serving moist towlets specially made just so they could wipe off their hands. We surely would not want to offend these people, would we? Surely this is how the world ends....I can't even believe this utter senseless crap. Boy, I wonder how GW Bush can keep his fingers off the input pad on the football... ________________________________________ Thanks for the TASR/W info...