little bits of me
11.08.2004
  operation phantom fury

Things look to be taking a turn for the worse in Iraq.

Fallujah, a city the size of Victoria or Halifax, is in the beginning days and nights of feeling the wrath of 10,000 U.S. marines just looking for a good ass whooping.

As usual, a fiercesome name has been given for the operation: Phantom Fury. Hmmm, isn't that the name of a vacuum cleaner?

The U.S. military is getting ready to clean house in Iraq. Never mind the civilians that will inevitably get sucked up the hose in the process. Iraqis are used to getting hosed. First they were hosed by the British. Then they were hosed by Saddam Hussein. More recently the hosing is a joint venture between the Americans and, once again, the British.

It's a good thing Canada is a friend of the U.S.. The U.S. wouldn't turn on a friend would they?

  posted by jmdMonday, November 08, 2004
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