Monkeyboy Bush has outdone himself!!!

1. His steel tariff has been declared illegal. It cost thousands of jobs in
an attempt to gain favor with labor unions. The unions endorsed the
opposition party.

2. He has banned low cost drugs from Canada to seniors. Instead our
government will supply them in about ten years. Right on!

3. The propoganda darling Jessie Lynch is now completely ruined! More
cannon fodder for Bush's crusade.

How stupid can one be? I don't know we'll have to wait and see, he hasn't
bottomed out yet.

RB

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On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 03:53:16 GMT, "Bobsprit" wrote:

Monkeyboy Bush has outdone himself!!!

[SNIP]

3. The propoganda darling Jessie Lynch is now completely ruined! More
cannon fodder for Bush's crusade.

How stupid can one be? I don't know we'll have to wait and see, he
hasn't bottomed out yet.

RB


I know you won't believe this either, but:

See the last paragraph here to see where the bogus story came from. It
came from a sloppy translation ("she" instead of "he") of an Iraqi
radio transmission about a "blonde" who put up a fierce fight:

If reporters knew the flimsiness of the source (overheard Iraqi radio,
translated from arabic) then they shouldn't have touched it without
more proof. It's the reporters job to check out clues and rumors, and
not treat it like solid fact, because, obviously nobody had solid facts
about Lynch at that point.

two wheels


From:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in582354.shtml

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At sunrise, Iraqi troops ambushed the lost soldiers, firing from both
sides of the highway. The Americans sped up to escape the attack, but
the Humvee that Pfc. Jessica Lynch was riding in smashed into the back
of a jack-knifed American tractor-trailer. Less than a mile behind
Lynch, Pfc. Patrick Miller was driving the last truck in the convoy.
During the attack, he floored the accelerator, trying to steer and duck
bullets at the same time.

[SNIP]

Just when it seemed the situation couldn't get any worse, it did.
Miller saw a group of Iraqis setting up a mortar position in front of
the dump truck. He says it could have wiped them all out.

To prevent them from firing, Miller dove behind a horseshoe-shaped
mount of dirt called a berm, across the highway from the Iraqis. But it
was seven Iraqis against one American -- seven Iraqis who were in that
mortar pit just 25 yards away.

Miller hadn't fired a weapon for seven months, and he admits he wasn't
the best marksman. He was an Army mechanic, and when he'd taken his
first marksmanship test, he'd failed it.

So what did he do? "One guy, like, jumped up to where I could see him,
and he had a mortar round in his hand, getting ready to drop it in the
tube," he says. "And as he jumped up, I just raised my rifle up and
shot, and he fell over."

It was the first shot he fired in the incident. The lousy marksman hit
home.

But after that first shot, his rifle jammed. He had to pound on it with
the palm of his hand, after every shot, to get the next bullet loaded
into the chamber. He kept on re-loading and shooting. "I was kind of
getting a rhythm down, count like seconds and then look up," he
explains. "And you could see somebody else trying to load it. So, I was
starting to count, and when I'd get to the number, I'd look up. And
somebody else would be trying to load it, and I'd shoot. I did that
probably seven times total. I counted the last time, and when I looked
up, there wasn't nobody there."

[SNIP]

Lynch apparently agrees with Johnson and Hernandez that Miller was the
hero of the whole operation. Does her $1 million book deal and
television movie bother Miller? "Mmm, somewhat," he answers. "But I
don't want to get all into that." Would he turn down a $1 million book
deal? "Oh no, I'd have to think about it," he laughs.

[SNIP]

Col. Heidi Brown explains why, out of 2,000 soldiers under her command,
Miller was the only one she recommended for one of the Army's highest
awards. She says, "Private First Class Miller did things during war
that no other soldier underneath my command did. And he risked his life
to save his comrades and he absolutely did."

Brown also has an idea why the Pentagon had first mistakenly described
Lynch as a fierce warrior who'd been shot and stabbed fighting off
Iraqis. The Americans there had heard an Iraqi radio transmission
describing a blond American fighting to her last breath before she was
shot and stabbed to death.

Now Brown believes they may have confused Lynch with another blond
soldier in her unit, Sgt. Donald Walters, whose body was later found
shot and stabbed to death. "The Iraqi reports had, whether it was the
actual Iraqi, the language, or the translation, used, 'she' instead of
'he' and that is my understanding of why there was confusion in this,"
she says.

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