Friday, July 4

Still Waiting to Have Those Flowers Thrown At Them

From The Times U.K.:

Sifting through what little remained of the burnt Humvee, a young infantry captain did not even try to hide his disgust as he picked up the charred helmet belonging to one of his comrades who had been inside the vehicle.

“This is what the Iraqis think of us,” the captain said, stamping out the last of the fires after the daylight attack at a busy crossroads. The Americans in the second Humvee had dived for cover, fearing that they too would be ambushed.
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