john is right! Between you, Salam Pax and his friend G. - journalists are not my daily reads - you guys are.
Thanx for the photos you've started to add - it's great to help visualize the environment that you talk about in your blog. Stay safe & keep the photos rollin'
Mon 7-Jul-2003 22:15 Posted by:blacksheep
man, somebody in the military should see the sense in letting iraqis come into the palace, pull apart and cart away the rubble caused by the JDAMs, and teach them to sell it on eBay to make money. it would piss off saddam no end to find out people all over the world were carving up his precious palaces for profit and others the owrld over were taking pieces of him home to gloat over and laugh over.
it would clean up the mess in a short time and give iraqis [and GI's] some great souvenirs from the war.
some looting has a good purpose, y'know?
have the corps of engineers put in more bathrooms and ultimately turn the palaces into housing for all those poor displaced people, like the kurds and arabs that he relocated in mosul and kirkuk.heh. ready made government housing, kinda like HUD projects, iraqi style. clean em up, make em habitable, put in plumbing, move people in.
get more closeups and details.
Tue 8-Jul-2003 01:14 Posted by:janet in venice
thanks dont even begin to say it dear angel in fatigues! it is you who made me the second luckiest chick! blackgum is in the mail!
It's amazing - the journos don't give us the really interesting photos like you do. Love the makeshift gym!
Wed 9-Jul-2003 22:15 Posted by:Lisa
Wow - amazing pix! The blown out tanks send shivers up my spine though because of all the DU dust. Have the areas that you guys have been in been very radioactive? Be safe man!
Sun 13-Jul-2003 08:13 Posted by:gyro
we call ours the "prison gym". Ours is a bit better, but we're REMF's
