LVent*
disgusted
Just an email I was sent
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> From the Sand Pit. It's freezing here. I'm sitting on
hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush
Mountains , along the Dar 'yoi Pomir River , watching a hole that leads
to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza
delivery for thousands of miles.
>
> I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to
fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given
up battling the chiggers and sand fleas, but them scorpions give a jolt
like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like
transmission fluid, but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of
it in my pack.
>
> The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe
> it
or not, they are human beings, which means they have to eat food and
drink water. That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty
hunter like me comes in handy. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel
entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot
the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders
where to drop the hardware. We bash some heads for a while, then I track
and record the new movement..
>
> It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in
> the
snipers yet. These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for.
We are but days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the
eradication to begin.
>
> I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over
> him
with my boot on his throat as I spit into his face and plunge my
nickel-plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me,
I'm a romantic. I've said it before and I'll say it again: This
country blows, man. It's not even a country. There are no roads,
there's no infrastructure, there's no government. This is an
inhospitable, rock pit shit hole ruled by eleventh century warring
tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs.
>
> Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his
family: join the opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are
your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and
eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose
with
stomach flu, if that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of
those
'tent cities of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy
fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.
>
> I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks, and
> Turkmen
and even a couple of Pushtuns, for over a month-and-a-half now, and
this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of 'em, are Huns...
actual, living Huns.. They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It's
ALL they do..
They have no respect for anything, not for their families, nor for each
other, nor for themselves. They claw at one another as a way of life.
They play polo with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into
human cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of
savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism. Cavemen
with AK-47's.
>
> Then again, maybe I'm just cranky.
>
> I'm freezing my ass off on this stupid hill because my
> lap
warmer is running out of juice, and I can't recharge it until the sun
comes up in a few hours. Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right?
Do me a favor, Bizarre. Write a letter to CNN and tell Wolf and
Anderson and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling
the Taliban 'smart..' They are not smart. I suggest CNN invest in a
dictionary because the word they are looking for is 'cunning.' The
Taliban are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and wolverines.. They are
sneaky and ruthless, and when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful,
malevolent parasites who create
nothing and destroy everything else. Smart.. Pfft. Yeah, they're real
smart.
>
> They've spent their entire lives reading only one book
> (and
not a very good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor
plumbing to be products of the devil.. They're still figuring out how
to work a Bic lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his
quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen;
eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.
>
> OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon, so I have to get
> back
to my hole. Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice,
but I'm good at it.
>
> Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off
> the
TV sets and move on with your lives. The story line you are getting
from CNN and other news agencies is utter bullshit and designed not to
deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the
commercials.
>
> We've got this one under control. The worst thing you
> guys
can do right now is sit around analyzing what we're doing over here,
because you have no idea what we're doing, and really, you don't want to
know.
>
> We are your military, and we are doing what you sent us
> here
to do.
>
> You wanna help? Buy Bonds America .
>
> Saucy Jack
> Recon Marine in Afghanistan
> Semper Fi
>
> "Freedom is not free...but the U.S. Marine Corps will
> pay
most of your share"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> From the Sand Pit. It's freezing here. I'm sitting on
hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush
Mountains , along the Dar 'yoi Pomir River , watching a hole that leads
to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza
delivery for thousands of miles.
>
> I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to
fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given
up battling the chiggers and sand fleas, but them scorpions give a jolt
like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like
transmission fluid, but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of
it in my pack.
>
> The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe
> it
or not, they are human beings, which means they have to eat food and
drink water. That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty
hunter like me comes in handy. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel
entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot
the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders
where to drop the hardware. We bash some heads for a while, then I track
and record the new movement..
>
> It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in
> the
snipers yet. These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for.
We are but days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the
eradication to begin.
>
> I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over
> him
with my boot on his throat as I spit into his face and plunge my
nickel-plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me,
I'm a romantic. I've said it before and I'll say it again: This
country blows, man. It's not even a country. There are no roads,
there's no infrastructure, there's no government. This is an
inhospitable, rock pit shit hole ruled by eleventh century warring
tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs.
>
> Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his
family: join the opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are
your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and
eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose
with
stomach flu, if that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of
those
'tent cities of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy
fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.
>
> I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks, and
> Turkmen
and even a couple of Pushtuns, for over a month-and-a-half now, and
this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of 'em, are Huns...
actual, living Huns.. They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It's
ALL they do..
They have no respect for anything, not for their families, nor for each
other, nor for themselves. They claw at one another as a way of life.
They play polo with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into
human cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of
savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism. Cavemen
with AK-47's.
>
> Then again, maybe I'm just cranky.
>
> I'm freezing my ass off on this stupid hill because my
> lap
warmer is running out of juice, and I can't recharge it until the sun
comes up in a few hours. Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right?
Do me a favor, Bizarre. Write a letter to CNN and tell Wolf and
Anderson and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling
the Taliban 'smart..' They are not smart. I suggest CNN invest in a
dictionary because the word they are looking for is 'cunning.' The
Taliban are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and wolverines.. They are
sneaky and ruthless, and when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful,
malevolent parasites who create
nothing and destroy everything else. Smart.. Pfft. Yeah, they're real
smart.
>
> They've spent their entire lives reading only one book
> (and
not a very good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor
plumbing to be products of the devil.. They're still figuring out how
to work a Bic lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his
quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen;
eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.
>
> OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon, so I have to get
> back
to my hole. Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice,
but I'm good at it.
>
> Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off
> the
TV sets and move on with your lives. The story line you are getting
from CNN and other news agencies is utter bullshit and designed not to
deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the
commercials.
>
> We've got this one under control. The worst thing you
> guys
can do right now is sit around analyzing what we're doing over here,
because you have no idea what we're doing, and really, you don't want to
know.
>
> We are your military, and we are doing what you sent us
> here
to do.
>
> You wanna help? Buy Bonds America .
>
> Saucy Jack
> Recon Marine in Afghanistan
> Semper Fi
>
> "Freedom is not free...but the U.S. Marine Corps will
> pay
most of your share"
>
>
>
>
>
>
