File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2003/anarchy-list.0303, message 776


Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:14:51 -0500
Subject: Fragging, the Geneva Convention, and other trivia
From: Sean Gallagher <sean-AT-dendro.com>


Hey, all, I'm coming out of long-term lurk to comment on the war 
chatter here.

The "fragging" incident in Kuwait is in keeping with a long-lived 
military tradition of offing officers over grievances.  Many a 
freshly-minted 2nd-looie in Vietnam found a hand grenade rolled into 
his quarters (there were something on the order of 400 fraggings in 
Vietnam just between 1969 and 1971, I've heard).

Expect more in Iraq as this stretches out and more reservists are 
pulled into combat situations. The only reason this is getting so much 
attention is because it happened right under journalists' noses.

I've been watching War TV here today; I have to agree with Al Jezeera 
when they justified showing the US POWs and dead in Iraqi custody based 
on how the US paraded Taliban POWs in front of the camera and packed 
them off to Camp X-Ray.

So, can anybody who saw Dubya's gaffe as he was getting primped the 
other night on the feed to the UK give me a summary of the gas mask 
joke? I've only heard rumors.
****
Sean Gallagher
http://www.buzzword-compliant.com/dotcommunist/
sean-AT-dendro.com


   

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