[Vision2020] The Secret Letter From Iraq

[Art Deco]

Pat,

What about all the conversations you have with presidential advisers, CIA 
operatives, kings, queens, and rock stars?  Are they as numerous as the 
conversations you refer to above?

W.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The Secret Letter From Iraq


> The conversations I have had with soldiers, gov agents, ngo workers, etc 
> all
> give me a much different picture of war in anyplace than I ever get from 
> the
> newspapers. So, the truth is that I am no longer a buyer of news papers. I
> get my news from other sources...I must not be the only one because
> newspapers are failing everywhere...even the NYT. They are missing the 
> real
> news and we all know the truth.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chasuk" <chasuk at gmail.com>
> To: "Vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:30 PM
> Subject: [Vision2020] The Secret Letter From Iraq
>
>
> 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."
>
> -- 
> "Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause." -- Mahatma Gandhi
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