On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 06:27 PM, Eric Cordian wrote:
News services are reporting that US Troops, who have been holding regular drunken parties at the Baghdad Zoo, have shot and killed the Zoo's rare Bengal tiger.
It seems not only civilians are in danger from US Troops in the Occupied Iraqi Territories.
Even the Evil Baathists had the sense and respect to keep the zoos and other institutions running. Now that the cowboys and good ole boys have taken over, it's target practice on civilians and shooting caged tigers. And worse things. And we are paying an average of $3000 per year per taxpayer, charged to our collective credit cards of course, to pay for Dick Cheney's company to grow richer, for George Bush's oil interests to benefit, and for the creation of a state more inimical to American interests than anything a guy living in the mountains of Afghanistan could ever have imagined. Which was probably the intent all along for those who support and benefit from the National Security State. But, the other side of me is chortling. A clusterfuck which is unfolding nicely. Deaths of imperialist soldiers on a daily basis, thefts of the electoral process by their Democrap opponents back home, more unwinding of U.S. support, and the growing prospects for some true strikes at the heartland. What's not to like? (Just steer clear of the major population centers which are pawns in this game.) Me, I don't fly on Jet CIA Blue or Delta Delta Operations, or any other of the Big Brother-controlled airlines. (And now they are financially suffering and want citizen-unit taxes to bail them out...any airline which takes tax subsidies deserves to have its airplanes blown out of the sky....KA_BOOOOOOM.) And I rarely leave Santa Cruz these days. And I keep my claymores in good shape and my perimeter alarms armed. This fascist and communist nation has danced to the tune of the Mud People too long. --Tim May