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New Iraqi Scuds Breaking news – Kuwait.
Iraq has launched a new type of Scud missile at the coalition forces deployed in Kuwait. Details are sketchy at this time, but it appears to be a new and improved Scud type missile. The CIA is investigating just how and from whom Saddam acquired this new technology.
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Didn’t Osama promise to blow up the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben (at least according to the Daily Mirror).
I wonder how he’ll attach the rocket motors to Big Ben without anyone noticing? Are we keeping an sufficiently good eye on George Galloway?
Of course, if this doesn’t work, the next step will be uncoventional warfare: coalition forces will be invited into major population centers, and then face withering attacks in the form of insults delivered by insufferably rude waiters.
I’ve often wondered who outsourced the construction of some of the minarets in Iraq’s mosques.
That would certainly be a material breach…
Those damned frogs, if they had never invented rockets we would all be a lot better off. And besides;
We don’t like froggies because thousands died fighting Nazis.
We don’t like Froggies because DeGaul was too left wing.
We don’t like Froggies because they gave the Statue of Liberty to their American friends (but we didn’t get one…)
We don’t like Froggies because their decalration of the common rights of man was written before the American Consitution and is universal not national.
We don’t like froggies because they helped the Americans fight their coalition partners and steal their land.
We don’t like froggies because they sell weapons to people in the Middle East.
We don’t like froggies because they don’t speak or think like us.
Ha, the universal language of understanding with which we will liberate our foes….brotherly love is a thing for Greeks mate. Cold steel is all we talk.
Mad dog may be referring to France’s support for the 13 states in the US War of Independence against Britain.
But the idea that the Universal Rights of Man (a very French document – asserts claims without assigning responsibilities) predates anything important is wildly off. Apart from the US declaration of independence predating the whole French event by over a decade, and being the real seed for the constitution – it also draws on the 1688 Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta of 1215.
If forced to settle for one, I’d settle for Magna Carta. Shorter, clearer, more enforceable than any of the other documents, quite apart from being almost six centuries more proven.
On Friday I was actually standing under the Eiffel tower, and there were a number of French soldiers wandering around with machine guns. (Or maybe they were police of some kind, but they were wearing fatigues). At the time, I thought this simply a sign that the French are as scared shitless of terrorism as the rest of us, but now I see they had something to hide.