[Vision2020] The Secret Letter From Iraq

[Chasuk]

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1543658-1,00.html

This letter from a Marine in Iraq is great.  I suggest that everyone read it.

Selected excerpts:

"Most Surreal Moment — Watching Marines arrive at my detention
facility and unload a truck load of flex-cuffed midgets. 26 to be
exact. We had put the word out earlier in the day to the Marines in
Fallujah that we were looking for Bad Guy X, who was described as a
midget. Little did I know that Fallujah was home to a small community
of midgets, who banded together for support since they were considered
as social outcasts. The Marines were anxious to get back to the midget
colony to bring in the rest of the midget suspects, but I called off
the search, figuring Bad Guy X was long gone on his short legs after
seeing his companions rounded up by the giant infidels."

And:

"Biggest Mystery — How some people can gain weight out here. I'm down
to 165 lbs. Who has time to eat?"

And:

"Second Biggest Mystery — if there's no atheists in foxholes, then why
aren't there more people at Mass every Sunday?"

And:

"Biggest Outrage — Practically anything said by talking heads on TV
about the war in Iraq, not that I get to watch much TV. Their thoughts
are consistently both grossly simplistic and politically slanted.
Biggest Offender: Bill O'Reilly."

And:

"Best Chuck Norris Moment — 13 May. Bad Guys arrived at the government
center in a small town to kidnap the mayor, since they have a problem
with any form of government that does not include regular beheadings
and women wearing burqahs. There were seven of them. As they brought
the mayor out to put him in a pick-up truck to take him off to be
beheaded (on video, as usual), one of the Bad Guys put down his
machine gun so that he could tie the mayor's hands. The mayor took the
opportunity to pick up the machine gun and drill five of the Bad Guys.
The other two ran away. One of the dead Bad Guys was on our top twenty
wanted list. Like they say, you can't fight City Hall."

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"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause." -- Mahatma Gandhi