Not related, I think, but an interesting coincidence. A new audio tape is out there with a voice purported to be that of Saddam Hussein, calling for a "jihad" against the "occupiers", which means of course, the troops already getting fired on everyday. And Wolfowitz goes to Iraq. Gee, he missed the first day of the war he so desperately wanted what's he wanna go for now? Damn Rubbernecker.
In an audiotape marking Thursday's 35th anniversary of the Baath Party coup, a voice purported to be that of Saddam Hussein urged Iraqis to continue a ''holy war'' against U.S. forces. Even so, the banned holiday was a remarkably quiet day for American troops in Iraq.
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American helicopters filled the Baghdad skies late Thursday afternoon, presumably as security for Paul Wolfowitz, the U.S. deputy secretary of defense, who will tour the country to see U.S. commanders and increasingly demoralized soldiers.
On Thursday, the Pentagon raised the number of U.S. personnel killed in combat since the start of the Iraq war on March 20 to 147 equaling the total killed in combat during the 1991 Gulf War.
Of that number, 30 members of the U.S. occupying force of 160,000 have been killed in anti-American assaults since President Bush declared an end to major hostilities in Iraq on May 1.
''I look forward to seeing firsthand evidence of what it means for the Iraqi people to be liberated from decades of brutal repression,'' Wolfowitz said after his 12-hour flight from Washington.
I hope that some pissed-off PFC hands Wolfowitz his helmet, flak jacket, rifle, a copy of the "general orders of the guard" (below)
1st General Order
"I will guard everything within the limits of my post and quit my post only when properly relieved."
2nd General Order
"I will obey my special orders and perform all of my duties in a military manner."
3rd General Order
"I will report violations of my special orders, emergencies, and anything not covered in my instructions, to the commander of the relief."
and asks him to walk his post in downtown Baghdad for 12 hours or so. That would be interesting.
posted by Jo Fish on 07.17.03 at 10:42 PM
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Wolfowitz would just tell that PFC the same thing he told Al Franken when Franken asked him what he thought of Clinton's military after they stormed Baghdad... "Fuck you."
''I look forward to seeing firsthand evidence of what it means for the Iraqi people to be liberated from decades of brutal repression,'' Wolfowitz said after his 12-hour flight from Washington.
I hope he liberates his inner feminine side, puts on his Victoria Secret lacies, then defects to the other side.
