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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (46875)	5/16/2005 11:10:05 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Not so much fun near the Syrian border: - our guys are still welding steel plates onto their vehicles. Whazza? - since they can only travel with so much, the insurgents appeared to be better armed. Whazza? - they were delayed for 24 because they couldn't get across the Euphrates so insurgents have plenty of time to depart or whatever they wanted to do - the villages where they expected to find insurgents and arms didn't have either but they did find a sheep - there also aren't enough troops to pursue insurgents as the bulk are still around places like...Fallujah. Fallujah? washingtonpost.com "On Wednesday, two artillery rounds buried in the road detonated under an Amtrac, blowing a two-foot-wide hole in its armor plating. The explosion set off ammunition inside the vehicle, creating an inferno. As the Amtrac burned, a 24-year-old Marine in a nearby vehicle grabbed his helmet in both fists and wrenched it. "I hate this country!" he screamed. Helicopters had just flown out more than a dozen victims from the Amtrac, two of whom would die of their wounds. Four others already lay dead inside the burning hulk.... "Frankly, I'm tired of going around not seeing anything, not knowing anything, and then having Marines, guys I know, get blown up by mines," Kalouf said."