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05/26/2003 Archived Entry: "Mission Accomplished - Memorial Day Edition"
Mission Accomplished - Memorial Day Edition
A supply convoy ambushed near Hadithah, about 120 miles northwest of Baghdad.
American soldiers kill a woman who approached their position northeast of Baghdad. This incident apparently happened after another US position received a grenade attack.
Three US soldiers are injured in a mine attack in Baghdad.
And the “coalition of the willing” is having second thoughts.
Thanks to YankeeDoodle at BartCop Forum for the compilation of links.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
It's Tuesday following a three-day weekend. The bitch about working part-time is that you don't get paid for holidays (or vacation, or sick days).
So you can only imagine my irritation when I came across this quote from your NYT link: "The Pentagon has determined it costs roughly $250,000 a year to maintain a single U.S. peacekeeper abroad..."
Hmmmm, according to my calculations that means that Cheney's annual pension from Halliburton could pay for four U.S. soldiers for a year in Iraq.
God, why am I so catty?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 05/27/2003 12:26 PM NY
