Apocalypse Then

"Vietnam? Shit dude, I so thought this was Iraq, you uh, got any weed though?"


Time for something non Katrina related. On Sunday Sept 4 US troops 'assaulted' the Northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar for the second time in two years, only to find... no "insurgents"! Imagine that!

"We expected them to fight back more than they did today, especially given some of the neighborhoods we were moving through,"

said Capt. Alan Blackburn, 30, of Mooresville, Ind., commander of Eagle Troop, 2nd Squadron of the Army's 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, presumably before yelling into the desert, "Come out and fight us like the best equipped army in the world!" After that he went back to reading his copy of Guerilla War for Dummies.

Although they didn't make the trip for nothing,

In one of the few pockets of fighting, insurgents fired seven rocket-propelled grenades at U.S. tanks from adjacent buildings in the western neighborhood of Qadisiyah. A U.S. jet destroyed much of the block with a 500-pound satellite-guided bomb, commanders said.

I'm sure the surviving residents will be overjoyed at having their homes demolished for them. Maybe they'll rain flowers and sweets on the next American they see. Oh and they also confiscated some brass knuckles they found in the city, along with a few AKs. Brass knuckles, very deadly in the right hands, some terrorist could punch out a soldier and drag their unconscious body on top of an IED and then blow him up.