Creative (Willful) Misreading
Apr. 4th, 2003 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muninnhuginnThe headline stated it clearly: Franks to have Complete Control of US Army "Within Weeks". Now that would be fun. Charles Martel to lead the "coalition" against the musselmen?
Exactly what warrior ghosts are the coalition troops disturbing anyway?
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Date: 2003-04-04 10:14 am (UTC)Did you see this bit: "Although I for one wouldn't miss Southampton, I'm sure those pesky US pilots wouldn't either."?
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Date: 2003-04-04 11:37 am (UTC)"Umm Qasr is a town similar to Southampton", UK Defence Minister Geoff Hoon told the House of Commons yesterday. "He's either never been to Southampton, or he's never been to Umm Qasr", said one British soldier, informed of this while on patrol in Umm Qasr. Another added: "There's no beer, no prostitutes, and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth."
[Naturally, these places all being in the deep south, we've no idea about the veracity of such comments.]
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Date: 2003-04-04 08:14 pm (UTC)Hey, their smart missiles never miss (except for the 10 to 15 percent that hit someplace other than where they're aimed). It's the dumb pilots ...
(To be fair, I must say that I wouldn't trust MY accuracy, if I'd been awake for 72 hours on amphetamines and MREs, as some of them have been.)