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Tuesday, 10 April 2007

April 10, 2003
"Criitter" Crittenden

I woke up at 4 a.m. to a horrendous amount of gunfire across the river. I got up and walked over to Capt. Carter.

“What’s going on over there?”

“Same thing as here yesterday, just dealing with pockets of stuff,” he said.

“It sounds like the end of the world over there,” I said.

“That’s the Marines. They like to shoot a lot,” Carter said.   

After the sun came up, Pasto went over to the concertina wire to talk to some Iraqis who were emerging out of the slums in greater numbers to talk, gawk and importune. When he came back, he reported, “One of those guys just asked, ‘Does this mean we’re all going to be American citizens?’”

“What did you tell him?” I asked.

“Maybe,” Pasto said. ...

Howison, in his track commander’s hatch, said, “I just heard over the net, Tusker Six says the war is over. Victory Six is coming up. They want everyone in full uniform, Kevlars, top and bottom, no American trash lying around, no graffiti, no American flags flying.”

Victory Six was the commanding general. Clean up, get dressed, behave. It was definitely over.

We drive under the arch into the palace district.  ...

Posted by Bill Faith on April 10, 2007 at 12:11 AM in Critter, Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

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