Tuesday, 20 March 2007
“Someone’s in for a rude wakeup.” -- Updated
Contributed by Bill Faith

March 20, 2003
"Critter" Crittenden

The war started quietly just before dawn. I woke up in my sleeping bag on the Bradley’s lowered ramp and looked at my watch. It was 0429 hours local time, about half an hour after George Bush’s deadline elapsed.  Col. Perkins had said we’d be parked under the air corridor the cruise missiles would pass through enroute to Baghdad. They’d be 350 feet overhead. 

Ten minutes later, still lying in my bag with the night’s chill creeping in, I heard them. Small whiny jet noises, accompanied by a odd waffling sound of air turbulence. One after another. Voom, voom, voom. I counted 20, about $30 million worth and thought, “Someone’s in for a rude wakeup.” ...

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Contributed by Bill Faith on March 20, 2007 at 01:32 AM in Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

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