Saturday, May 19, 2007

Fixing those typos


This from the Irish Times, with the typos fixed.

See how much clearer it reads with the errata cleaned up.

Iraqi gunmen soldiers attack village killing 15.

Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms Iraqi Army regulars entered a village east of Baghdad early today, removed families from their homes and opened fire on the men, killing 15 of them, an Iraqi general and a Kurdish political party said.

The victims were Kurdish Shias, according to a statement posted on the website of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. The gunmen Iraqi soldiers entered the village of Hamid Shifi, about 60 miles from Baghdad and forced families from their homes, said Brig. Gen. Nazim Sherif.

The assailants Iraqi soldiers then separated the women and children, ordered the men to stand in a single file and gunned them down, he said. Sherif said villagers had received no threats before the attack, which he blamed on al-Qaeda. The village is in Diyala province, an area northeast of Baghdad where violence has violent skirmishes in the Iraq Civil War have risen sharply in the past six months.

Meanwhile five US soldiers were killed in four separate attacks by insurgents Iraqi soldiers dressed as civilians in Iraq yesterday and today, taking to eight the number of American soldiers killed in the past 48 hours, the US military said.


In one of the worst attacks, a roadside bomb followed by gunfire killed two soldiers and wounded two others in northeastern Baghdad yesterday, the military said in a statement today.

Another soldier was killed in western Anbar province, a stronghold of the Sunni Arab insurgency side of the Iraq Civil War, and a fourth was shot dead near Baghdad, also yesterday.


Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, we are training and arming the people who are killing each other and us Tuesdays, Thursdays, weekends and evenings.

Dear Democrats; Bush has walled up our soldiers in the Valley of Death and will fucking well keep them there until we’re all broke and they’re all dead or damaged for life. They need to be rescue from Bush’s Iraqi Fiasco as surely as New Orleans residents needed to be rescued from Bush’s Katrina Catastrophe.

On this point the landslides of 2006 made the will of the American people unambiguously clearly.

Your most vital civic duty is to save our military from their involuntary participation in an Iraq Civil War that is killing them for no damned good reason, and from the cowardly Republican sociopaths here at home that are holding them hostage to George Bush's ego.

3 comments:

cieran said...

It's been said before, and should be said again, and again, and...

Supporting the troops means keeping them alive, first and foremost.

Ergo Bush and the GOP do not support our troops. Their warped appetite for human sacrifice needs to stop, right here and now, regardless of what the stupidest 27% (i.e., the GOP base) desires.

Anonymous said...

I'd even go with 'your duty as humans', or some such.

And hit them over the head again and again with the 2006 elections. What's so hard to get?

What's going to happen to those Democrats who still enable CheneyCo's occupation in 2008?

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Ivory Bill Woodpecker said...

The Dems fear that the voters will turn on them and blame them for losing the war--as if it could be won--if they do the right thing and bring the troops home, as happened when the Dems did the right thing on equal rights for black Americans. Also, since their Senate Majority depends on Joe Quisling Lieberman, they might not truly be able to stop the Cheney-Bu$hco Juggernaut O'Ruinous Stupidity[tm].

I don't blame the Dems. I blame Mr. and Ms. Dumbass White Trash for deserting the Dems because the DWTs put keeping dusky folks in their place over THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST.

Mencken: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it, good and hard." The DWTs are now getting the government they deserve, good and hard, right up the poop chute [Cornhole!].