I Can Walk, Bend, Kneel and Stoop

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Iraq Job Opportunities

Open positions:

Main Battle Tank Repairer,
Mechanic Engineer Equipment,
Chemical Pump Repair,
Mechanic  Instrument Control Senior Repairer,
MIMMS Operator (Marine Corps Automated Logistician),
Tank Turret Repair,
TOW Missile Repairer,
DSETS Operator

All positions starting at 80K!
Salaries vary with each position.

R&R every 4 months

Working Conditions:
Extreme danger, stress, physical hardships and possible field living conditions associated with this position within a desert camp complex.

Ability to function during an extended assignment at a foreign, in-country facility exposed to seasonal temperature extremes. Ability to cope with shared cafeteria, bath and sleeping quarters. Must be able to walk, kneel, bend and stoop, and have correctable vision. Supervised by the Site Manager or senior Human Resources personnel. Only those willing to work and live under these conditions should apply.

They aren't kidding about extreme danger.  This is a story from the Telegraph (hat tip to David Byron):

The mob grew more frenzied as the gunmen dragged the two surviving Americans from the cab of their bullet-ridden lorry and forced them to kneel on the street.

Killing one of the men with a rifle round fired into the back of his head, they doused the other with petrol and set him alight. Barefoot children, yelping in delight, piled straw on to the screaming man's body to stoke the flames.

It had taken just one wrong turn for disaster to unfold. Less than a mile from the base it was heading to, the convoy turned left instead of right and lumbered down one of the most anti-American streets in Iraq, a narrow bottleneck in Duluiya town, on a peninsular jutting into the Tigris river named after the Jibouri tribe that lives there.

As the lorries desperately tried to reverse out, dozens of Sunni Arab insurgents wielding rocket launchers and automatic rifles emerged from their homes.

As David pointed out in his comment about this story, a few months ago this kind of behavior got the city of Fallujah levelled.   Now it doesn't make a ripple.  Looks like the librul media is shielding Dear Leader from the slings and arrows that would inevitably come his way if this story saw any daylight. 

In other oil and corpo-fascist related news:

Shell net profits .... UP! 68 percent to $7.369 billion.
BP net profits ... UP!  34 percent to $97.73 billion from $66.73 billion.
ConocoPhillips profits ... UP! 89 percent
Exxon profits ... UP! 75 percent

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Comments

[DavidByron]

File this comment under, "this is as good a place to post it as any". It's Iraq related and I have to say this somewhere.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/28/32442/202

So this is a dKos diary and the guy just found out that Saddam Hussein offered to resign prior to and to prevent an invasion of Iraq but of course Bush blew him off. Apparently this is news to the guys. I knew this 2 and a half years ago when it happened just prior to the war.

Why is this guy only just learning this information? I wonder if he knows that Osama also offered to give himself up prior to the invasion of Afghansitan?

Does the fact that this sort of thing is better known outside the US help to explain why there's a dichotomy between how Americans see themselves and how other see them?

The fact that this guy is only now learning what was available for years seems to suggest a failure of the blogs to educatate people about the most elementary facts about the war. I'm betting readers of this blog will not be surprised by this "news" either, since Robin has that most rare thing in the blogosphere --- a memory that exceeds one week into the past.

[eRobin]

I had heard just after the war started that Saddam had offered to be bought out. From most of what I read he seemed desperate to avoid the war. We on the other hand seemed desperate to get one on. After I read Klein's Baghdad Year Zero I understood why.

I didn't hear that bit about bin Laden.

As for my memory: thanks, but it's selective. I spend more time kicking myself for forgetting to follow up on something than just about any other blog-related activity.