Okay, I don't want to hear about the damn "capitulation form" anymore. I'm not in the Iraqi Republican Army, I don't have to sign it. And I don't think they get CBS news on Iraqi satellite teevee.
I just had to shut the box off. An anchorfemale asked some guy (didn't get his name, he was some suit in the teevee studio) about how the helicopter crash that has so far resulted in the first (and only) fatalities in the war "made the troops feel." He started to reply something about "it brings the reality of the war home--" I pressed the power button on the remote before I could hear him finish it with "to the soldiers." Stupid suited-and-tied asshead, do you think that any of those soldiers don't know they can get killed?
Posted by Andrea Harris at March 21, 2003 02:18 AMTurn off the TV, read Agonist. He's aggregating news like a madman.
Posted by: Matt McIrvin at March 21, 2003 at 09:49 AMHuh! A freak helicopter accident brings home "the reality of war"!? I can't imagine what the sound of whizzing and thudding ordnance will bring, can you? War reporters are such pisspants little twats.
Posted by: Steven Chapman at March 21, 2003 at 10:33 AMEvery time a Marine climbs on to one of those old CH46s he's(and she, now) is taking a ride on a 40 year old airframe. Hardly a week goes by without a fatal aircraft crash in PEACETIME, or whatever we have these days that passes for peacetime. Those birds were used in Viet Nam, they crashed there, too.
What it brought home to the troops is that we need to quit trying to hold those old birds together with wire and green tape and soak the taxpayers for an entirely new fleet of birds. Let's steal the Saudi oil to pay for it, while we're in the neighborhood.