[A-List] The Boy Scout Oath Is Difficult To Apply To Modern Business & U.S. Military Operations In Iraq

["Leigh Meyers" <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>]

[May 14 2007] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary:

Nasty Brutal & Vicious IS The 'Name Of The Game'â The Boy Scout Oath
Is Difficult To Apply To Modern Business & U.S. Military Operations In
Iraq - 4,000 Soldiers Looking For Three, Count 'em 3, Missing
Soldiers, Is Dangerously Stupid And NOT Militarily Justifiable

<http://leighm.net/wp/2007/05/14/tth_070514/>

Also, speaking of Boy Scouts, and all that...

Remember air raid drills when you were a kid?
Duck! ...and Cover:
http://www.archive.org/details/DuckandC1951

These kids need to get with the program... Ollie North's Syko Summer
Camp & a little 'tough love'.
<http://leighm.net/wp/2007/05/08/supersykamp_borev/>

BBC NEWS

US teachers stage mock gun attack

Teachers at a US school have been criticised after staging a fake gun
attack during a class trip, telling children it was not a drill.

Many of the 69 pupils, aged about 11, were reduced to tears when they
were told to hide under tables and keep quiet as a gunman was on the
loose.
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"I was like 'Oh My God.' At first I thought I was going to die. We
flipped out," said 11-year-old pupil Shay Naylor.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/6653167.stm

In the ...<b>other</b>... news:

Do you ever feel like we aren't learning anything in Iraq? Four
Thousand of soldiers diverted to searching for Three, count 'em 3,
missing soldiers even as commanders complain of lacking enough troops
in the provinces to take control of an area, no less contain
insurgencies. More.

The Death Count in Iraq so far: 3390â.

The Iraqi parliament votes unanimously that the U.S. should stop
building walls around Iraqi communities.

The U.S. agrees to talk with Iran about a limited set of subjects.

Dick Cheney finishes a whirlwind tour of the Middle East apparently
attempting to build support for some sort of Middle East 'Peace
Force'.

Congress debates immigration reform this week, and if nothing gets
done soon it's Memorial Day recess until June, at which point the bill
will impinge on congress's 'floor time' to deal with the next stage of
funding the Supplemental Appropriations bill to continue fighting Iraq
& Afghanistan. More.

The trial of Jose Padilla startsâ It's now known as Padilla-lite, with
NONE of the original charges remaining

As of today, $0.41 US to sent a first class letter in America.

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