Violence Prose

By Jove, Mr. Bones! If General Gage had only heard of the PubDip -- "public diplomacy" -- product and deployed it as enthusiastically as today’s specimen invasionites do, doubtless Boston would still be Brit-occupied and none of that bad former-Iraq stuff would ever have happened.

Coalition and Iraqi forces killed or captured dozens of terrorists and criminal militia members during multiple engagements in Iraq yesterday, military officials said. In Suq Ash Shuyukh, southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, a combined force of more than 300 Iraqi Army, Iraqi Police and Iraqi Special Weapons and Tactics personnel, advised by U.S. Special Operations Forces, killed 40 criminal militia members and arrested an additional 40 after the Iraqi forces were attacked by the militia members. Using assault rifles and automatic weapons, the criminal militia attacked Iraqi Security Forces in the morning. Regional police and Army forces on alert in the area responded in force, overwhelming the outnumbered criminal militia fighters. Facing a combination of armored vehicles and suppressive fire, the criminals retreated to a building that contained the local Sadr Trend office. With Iraqi special weapons and tactics personnel providing support, additional security forces launched a counter attack, overrunning the remaining enemy defenses. [Huh? Who let that in?] The ISF entered the building and cleared it of the remaining criminals.

Hmm. Isn't "counterattack" all one word? Though perhaps if the outnumbered CMM’s had entrenched themselves in a retail outlet . . . .

The spirit is willful, but the flesh is weak, even amongst PubDippers. I am sorry to say they cannot keep up that rate of fire indefinitely. Though they get off six (6) rounds of the magic C-word in the first 150, the whole scribble, which comes in just under one thousand, has no more than twenty (20). A sad fallin’ off! No wonder the neocomrade scribbler did not want his name attached, for all that anonymity coexists oddly with the disclaimer

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