Author: jp

As captioned by the AP: “U.S. Marines of the 1st Division pass by dead bodies in the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004.”
From Several Insurgent Bases Found in Falluja, U.S. General Says, the New York Times, November 18, 2004:

The American death toll from the Falluja operation, which began Nov. 7, now stands at 51, with 425 wounded, General Sattler said, although an unspecified number of the wounded have returned to duty. Eight Iraqi soldiers have died and 43 were wounded, he added.
From 25 to 30 Iraqi civilians were treated for wounds, but there have been no reported Iraqi civilian deaths yet, the general said.

European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet tries to get his yo-yo “Around the Third World“.
In this week’s hottest economic news (though – full disclosure – I’m not Lou Dobbs, and am in no way to be confused with someone of that level of expertise, and nor would I ever recklessly fund a dotcom venture like Space.com), the G20, or so-called “Group of 20”, is slated to meet in Berlin on Friday. Here, the world’s 20 financial superpowers will gather around flaming piles of cash as they try to cook up ways of explaining to United States representatives that the Bush Administration’s unchecked deficit spending is, hmmm, how to put this excessively simply, on the verge of fucking the world up. In a totally bad, unproductive way, I mean, unlike that successful prosecution of the War on Terror™, which, as we all know, made the world more secure. And then Treasury Secretary John Snow will presumably respond, “Fuck if we care.”
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Say hello to the lads of November, 2004.

Look, shit happens when a bunch of young guys roll into a city for the weekend. (“Fallujah, baby!”) Sometimes in the heat of the moment, you just go blank, man, and shit happens, all right? But a buddy doesn’t videotape it, and he sure as hell doesn’t post it on his website: That’s guy rule #2. (#1, Bros before hoes.) Remind me not to invite Kevin Sites to my bachelor party next month. (“Mashhad, baby!”)
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War mementos, by way of the Associated Press: “U.S. Army critical care nurse Cpt. Marvetta Walker checks on a 9-year-old Fallujah boy who was wounded in the face and stomach, while at the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq Monday, Nov. 15, 2004. The boy was in critical condition. The hospital has been treating both American wounded as well as civilians from the Fallujah fighting. (AP Photo/John Moore)”
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