I haven't slept more than three hours in a row all week. Every time I lay down, there's not 4 hours together where the "INCOMING INCOMING INCOMING!" alarm doesn't go off. We bolt out of bed, all of us sprinting for the concrete 'SCUD bunkers' at the end of each row of trailers, most of us barefoot and not fully awake until we're already there. We pile inside, then stand there panting as we count the impact crashes of the usual 107mm rockets, trying to gauge distance and bearing to guess if they've landed on the FOB or off. I get a count of my guys in there with me, then sprint bunker to bunker until I've accounted for them all, and report such to the company CP. Some guys, the lucky ones who were awake and had a second, pull out PSPs or iPods to kill the time. We wait the 45 minutes...the hour...however long it takes command to feel that no further rounds are immediately due, before we are released back to our beds. Not to sleep, not for me anyhow. That was the third alert tonight. Or the fourth. I can't tell any more.
I also talked with a woman yesterday who had just gotten off the phone with her son in Baghdad - she said pretty much the same thing. Slugbug
Bush call this "a defining moment in the history of a free Iraq," a surge in violence, no less.
increased sectarian violence on a large scale and renewed US bombing of civilians is what Bush calls success. Basra, the second largest city, and Baghdad, the largest city, are in chaos, as is the lower 1/3 of Iraq. The northern Kurd section is at war with Turkey.
What Bush means is that there will be great success for the investors in the contractors and the weapons manufacturers.
I was listening to an NPR broadcast about Iraqi Christians and one who immigrated recently to detroit said the "the US replaced Saddam with 100 Saddams."
Posted by: Kayakbiker | March 28, 2008 at 08:06 PM
Indeed the construction industry is benefiting handsomely from W's policies both at home and around the world.
They LOVE W and everything he stands for.
It sucks being the only liberal in a reactionary industry.
Posted by: Ally McRepuke | March 28, 2008 at 10:44 PM