BAQUBAH, Iraq, April 12 -- They found out by reading exasperated e-mails from their spouses, hearing somber announcements from their platoon commanders, seeing snippets of the secretary of defense at a televised news conference: The American soldiers who thought they were staying in Iraq one year would now stay 15 months. All of them.
From Texas to Baghdad and Baqubah to the Beltway, the reaction Thursday among U.S. soldiers and their families to the news of the mass extension was akin to a collective groan...
"Support the troops..."
Meanwhile, Dr. StrangeHammer continues to dream of a world in which the most succulent maidens will come forth for him to perform regular chair maintenance, grounds keeping, and of course, oral sex.
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