Frederick, coming from you that means a great deal.
jd
On 2/11/07, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph Duemer" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 8:43 PM
> Subject: Debriefing
>
>
> Debriefing
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>
> The secretary returning from the theater
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> breaks it to the commander-in-chief: We're
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> getting killed out there, Sir. Getting our
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> butts kicked, our lunches eaten, our asses
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> handed to us on a platter, etcetera. We tried
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> having the marines grow mustaches to show
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> respect for the cultural norms etcetera, but
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> the rapes & murders sort of undercut that
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> initiative, Sir. Sir, there are no good options,
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> Sir. The president enjoyed the secretary's
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> nervous military tic of repeating the word
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> at the beginning & the end of every other
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> sentence. (He'd been a corporal in Korea.)
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> Sir, we need another twenty thousand bodies.
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> Twenty-one thousand to be exact. Or punt.
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> Actually, Sir, in reality, Sir, there's nothing
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> another twenty-thousand can do but make
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> the capitol a little neater as we withdraw.
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> I never punt, said the president. Where's my
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> fucking pen? Run it up the middle. Hit it out
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> of the fucking park. I never fucking punt.
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> The generals looked grave. Who was this
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> little puke who never served talking like
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> he needs a sled to drag around his balls? Let
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> the record show that the generals looked
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> grave & that the president never punted.
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> Let the record also show he put the necessary
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> bodies on the line & kept them there until
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> the dunes knelt to Jesus & hell froze over.
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> Until blood filled all the classrooms of the
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> universities & all the libraries were burned.
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> Let the record show that the president never
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> wavered in his purpose, never let opinion
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> sway his resolve to stay the course, never
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> followed & always led, never listened, never
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> learned, never let the facts get in the way
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> & always did what his little god -- an endless
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> whining feedback tone like tinnitus – demanded.
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> God damn it to fucking hell you shitheel
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> moron I never punt. Now get those bodies.
>
>
> --
> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> [sharpsand.net]
>
>
> This kicks ass. Good work.
>
--
Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
[sharpsand.net]
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