Watch it bud, I'm workin' this side of the street. You lay off my schtick or I'll get you sent to Frostbite Falls to run in the Kirwood Derby.

Dudes, you so totally have to follow this link and read about these guys, real cheeto-eaters like you and me! They totally put one over on the ragheads, and got boo-coo bucks from the Defense Department in the bargain! Plus, dude, they learned how to use their war-on-terror credentials to get out of a domestic-violence jam!

Fuckin heroes, both of em! Read about it at:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/todays_must_read_304.php

or click my name. Don't worry, you won't get a shock.

Here is the original story at the NYTs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/world/asia/27ammo.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

It's a couple grades higher in reading comprehension and attention span required than the condensed article linked above. No point troubling them with it. It starts:

As the war in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on American logistics and military support in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

But to arm the Afghan forces that it hopes will lead this fight, the American military has relied since early last year on a fledgling company led by a 22-year-old man whose vice president was a licensed masseur.

With the award last January of a federal contract worth as much as nearly $300 million, the company, AEY Inc., which operates out of an unmarked office in Miami Beach, became the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan’s army and police forces.

Since then, the company has provided ammunition that is more than 40 years old and in decomposing packaging, according to an examination of the munitions by The New York Times and interviews with American and Afghan officials. Much of the ammunition comes from the aging stockpiles of the old Communist bloc, including stockpiles that the State Department and NATO have determined to be unreliable and obsolete, and have spent millions of dollars to have destroyed.

Or click my name.

I just can't figure you out! How did you know about the guppies? Anyway, I couldn't have said it better myself.

the desperate last throes

Are those better than just plain old "last throes"? Cause those weren't very good.

C'mon man, with your track record, we depend on you to tell us what's going to happen. Have you missed yet?

seems to have made nazlbur excited so he blurturated some nonsense. Whatsamatter, Nazzy, you don't think those kids show the War On Terror in its best light?

Bedtime for Moosie. Everyone have a great evening.

I am coming to the very depressing conclusion that almost everybody, and I'm talking Dems, thinks the War On Iraq can be "fixed"! Amazing! And there's no hurry about doing it. Oh. Bush can't do it, McCain can't do it, but Hillary or Obama can.

Let's hope so. Anyway, for the gratification afforded by hearing America's premier liberal blogger telling Mooser to "Go Fuck Yourself" click my name.

I was pushing my theory that the War On Iraq presents an insoluble political and moral and political dilemma for Obama and Hillary, too. They must either join Bush in a welter of impeachable offenses within a week of taking office (Don't you think the Generals will see to it?), and these offenses will suddenly become very important to the Repubs.

My theory, that the War will become untenable as soon as the criminality ir removed from it, seems not to be, communicable.

And I was OT, and I did gratuitously insult Digby, oops.

Gotta read the comments, and it's short.

Okay, I've come to the conclusion that "Would you waterboard for Obama" is a stupid question Okay! So how about this, all you vets. I'm the one who is supposed to hate the military, but one question which has been bothering me: Will Obama (or Hilary for that matter) continue STOP-LOSS???

Not stop the war, not cut and run, just discontinue "stop-loss" to bring this war more in line with our usual military personnel policies. Or is stop-loss necessary to the war, and Obama is gonna have to do it just like Bush?

Obama and Stop-loss? Does that make sense to anyone? A President who has never even been in the military (let alone deserted) is gonna demand stop-loss of our troops? RMP? Aych?

Oh, the right-wing gasbags will love that! They will crucify him for it, can't you just hear them? Gone till noon, save your FYs til then!