U.S. Troops in Iraq Face A Powerful New Weapon


	U.S. Troops in Iraq Face A Powerful New Weapon

ratilfar

7-10-2008 10:05 AM

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war, iraq, bombs, rockets, baghdad, escalation

ratilfar says:

Leave it to the Pentagon to come up with a new and more stupid acronym than IED!

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7-11-2008 6:17 AM

BartendingBear

This report can't be true. All the rightys around here keep claiming how good things are going over there. "The surge is working, the surge is working!"

I wonder what they're smoking.

7-11-2008 8:45 AM

ratilfar

Whatever it is, I don't want any! Nothing that can throw you into another space time continuum can be good for you. I mean I heard about tripping but man!

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