HOLY.SHIT.
The front page story in today's Charlotte Observer--ABOVE THE FOLD--has the headline "8 GIs Accused of Murder."
We've rotated over a million men and women through Iraq in the last five years, and 8 of them are accused of a crime and it's top of the page front page news, but when two of our own brave guys are brutally butchered, it's a one-day, one-off, below-the-fold, small type fucking AFTERTHOUGHT?????
There is a tenth circle of Dante's hell for journalists and editors like this. May their flesh erupt in ten thousand boils and their eyes ooze puss and their genitalia be eaten by leeches for all eternity for what they are doing to our ability to fight and win this war!
Can you tell I'm a little pissed off?
Excuse me. Have to place vitriolic phone call to Observer now to confirm the cancellation of my subscription.
Posted by insomnomaniac at June 22, 2006 11:03 AM | TrackBackI always thought G.I. stood for "Government Issue" - as in GI shirt, GI weapon, GI socks, etc. Even to "if the Army wanted you to have a wife, they would have issued you one!"
And O.D. meant "olive drab."