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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-03 05:28 PM
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59. Tony the Tiger is dead.
Watch your tank! This incident IS truly a metaphor for the entire FUBAR clusterfuck.
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  -U.S. soldier kills tiger in Baghdad dArKeR  Sep-20-03 08:17 AM   #0 
  - If that's the callous uncaring some show to tigers...  Darranar   Sep-20-03 08:25 AM   #1 
  - so, he was feeding his own arm to the tiger  lanlady   Sep-20-03 08:28 AM   #2 
  - Assholes!  dusty64   Sep-20-03 08:32 AM   #3 
  - What was he doing in the zoo?  Paschall   Sep-20-03 09:13 AM   #15 
  - Baiting a tiger? Sounds like  Minstrel Boy   Sep-20-03 08:33 AM   #4 
  - A metaphor for US policy in Iraq.  R Hickey   Sep-20-03 08:43 AM   #11 
     - Actually, had the man offered to feed the tiger  Jen6   Sep-20-03 12:36 PM   #46 
  - When human (Iraqi) life is so cheaply valued over there...  Flubadubya   Sep-20-03 08:34 AM   #5 
  - A highly endangered species  Jen6   Sep-20-03 12:40 PM   #48 
  - ROTFLMAO  Mokito   Sep-20-03 08:34 AM   #6 
  - I WONDER WHAT THEY WERE DRINKING  saigon68   Sep-20-03 08:37 AM   #8 
     - Or  LeftistGorilla   Sep-20-03 12:02 PM   #36 
  - Having a "party"?  party_line   Sep-20-03 08:36 AM   #7 
  - It's a pity  markbark   Sep-20-03 08:37 AM   #9 
  - He who wears the pee of a tiger is assured luck in the new year  markses   Sep-20-03 08:42 AM   #10 
  - A very unfortunate incident ...  Tracer   Sep-20-03 08:48 AM   #12 
  - How DARE you???  AWD   Sep-20-03 09:06 AM   #13 
  - Tiger  MasonJar   Sep-20-03 09:08 AM   #14 
  - Detroit Fans for sure  soupkitchen   Sep-20-03 09:31 AM   #16 
  - Spectacular in repugnance  olmy   Sep-20-03 09:47 AM   #17 
  - Actually....  Cappurr   Sep-20-03 09:51 AM   #18 
     - Running through broken glass  saigon68   Sep-20-03 10:18 AM   #24 
  - I mourn the tiger. The soldier got what his ignorance brought him  Solly Mack   Sep-20-03 09:52 AM   #19 
  - Now we can see the difference between an occupation and liberation...  Q   Sep-20-03 09:58 AM   #20 
     - Media Blackout. I want to know the name of the IDIOT that did this.  saigon68   Sep-20-03 10:21 AM   #25 
        - My thoughts exactly - I want the name of this piece of garbage! (N/T)  Southsideirish   Sep-20-03 04:00 PM   #58 
        - SaigonPM - See PM  InkAddict   Sep-21-03 02:07 AM   #66 
  - Partying at the zoo, drinking beer, out of uniform and armed?  LizW   Sep-20-03 10:02 AM   #21 
  - Sounds like rural Texas  saigon68   Sep-20-03 10:22 AM   #26 
  - Include the Tiger..  GreenGreenLimaBean   Sep-20-03 12:28 PM   #44 
  - Good freaking question  kwolf68   Sep-20-03 12:04 PM   #37 
  - R.Hickey hit the nail on the head when he said that this is a metaphor  Billy_Pilgrim   Sep-20-03 10:12 AM   #22 
  - And  Chomskyite   Sep-20-03 05:57 PM   #61 
  - My prediction  prolesunited   Sep-20-03 10:13 AM   #23 
  - Well...  Cappurr   Sep-20-03 10:31 AM   #27 
  - I agree yet,  koopie57   Sep-20-03 11:57 AM   #35 
  - I'm sorry if you misinterpret my statement  prolesunited   Sep-20-03 12:10 PM   #39 
  - oh no  koopie57   Sep-21-03 12:32 AM   #64 
  - This wasn't stress. This was stupidity.  janx   Sep-20-03 12:25 PM   #43 
  - Nobody is so drunk that  bitchkitty   Sep-21-03 07:23 PM   #71 
  - Why do you believe that love for animals excludes  Jen6   Sep-20-03 12:55 PM   #50 
     - Thank you  vidali   Sep-20-03 01:07 PM   #52 
  - well,  silverchair   Sep-20-03 11:08 AM   #28 
  - Remember when the marines where killing and eating gazelles? . . .  TeeYiYi   Sep-20-03 11:08 AM   #29 
  - YEah, they hate us because of our freedoms.  Liberal_Guerilla   Sep-20-03 12:30 PM   #45 
  - Great!! can't wait for these "heroes" to come home.  Liberal_Guerilla   Sep-20-03 11:11 AM   #30 
  - You mean like Muhammad and McVeigh?  prolesunited   Sep-20-03 11:41 AM   #32 
     - Jesus Christ!  Liberal_Guerilla   Sep-20-03 11:50 AM   #33 
     - Your exclamation  prolesunited   Sep-20-03 11:54 AM   #34 
     - Yes, I knew about all of these incidents.  Liberal_Guerilla   Sep-20-03 12:14 PM   #41 
     - Do you think  kwolf68   Sep-20-03 12:09 PM   #38 
        - Imagine.  Liberal_Guerilla   Sep-20-03 12:17 PM   #42 
           - I agree  prolesunited   Sep-20-03 12:42 PM   #49 
              - Hey, thanks for the great link.  Liberal_Guerilla   Sep-20-03 12:56 PM   #51 
     - The military realized it had a problem  david_vincent   Sep-20-03 06:39 PM   #62 
  - Do this in the US and you're up on criminal charges -- why not in Iraq  sspiderjohn   Sep-20-03 11:16 AM   #31 
  - Law of the Jungle  InkAddict   Sep-20-03 12:11 PM   #40 
  - this asshole shot his ticket home.  GreatCaesarsGhost   Sep-20-03 12:37 PM   #47 
  - Drunk and carrying loaded weapons?  teryang   Sep-20-03 01:31 PM   #53 
  - "and Bush immediately called to congratulate the tiger's killer saying:"  NewYorkerfromMass   Sep-20-03 02:51 PM   #54 
  - "Never get out of the boat"  0rganism   Sep-20-03 03:14 PM   #55 
  - This calls for Purple Heart with stripes  Swede   Sep-20-03 03:41 PM   #56 
  - courtmartial his ass.  roguevalley   Sep-20-03 03:52 PM   #57 
  - Tony the Tiger is dead.  Karenina   Sep-20-03 05:28 PM   #59 
  - Wasn't that Esso's slogan?..."put a tiger in your tank!"?  NewYorkerfromMass   Sep-20-03 10:02 PM   #63 
  - As an LSU student I am incensed  Chomskyite   Sep-20-03 05:52 PM   #60 
  - I doubt if these soldiers were trying to feed the tigers.  Kool Kitty   Sep-21-03 01:34 AM   #65 
  - It is sad  jiacinto   Sep-21-03 05:47 PM   #67 
  - It is Sad  minkyboodle   Sep-21-03 05:52 PM   #68 
  - Trivial  boilertommy   Sep-21-03 06:35 PM   #69 
     - Dude it's not 1863 or 1944 but...  ezmojason   Sep-21-03 07:10 PM   #70 
     - Have you ever heard of the Lippizaners?  oldcoot   Sep-21-03 09:05 PM   #72 
     - You're making sense  boilertommy   Sep-21-03 11:11 PM   #73 
     - I beg your miniscule pardon?!?!?!?!?!?!  Pert_UK   Sep-22-03 12:20 AM   #74 
        - Simmer down maybe?  Selwynn   Sep-22-03 12:28 AM   #77 
           - The word is felony.  ezmojason   Sep-22-03 01:18 AM   #80 
           - You misread and misrepresented me...  Pert_UK   Sep-22-03 01:52 AM   #81 
  - Bollucks....that's not what people are saying and you know it.  Pert_UK   Sep-22-03 12:24 AM   #75 
  - My soldier hubby thought it a pity the tiger didn't eat them  Solly Mack   Sep-22-03 12:44 AM   #79 
  - Where.........  PennyLane   Sep-22-03 12:25 AM   #76 
     - Homebrew...Iraqi's make it  Solly Mack   Sep-22-03 12:30 AM   #78 
        - what the hell ? your husband is in IRAQ??  aunteeWar   Sep-22-03 02:55 AM   #82 
           - He's a soldier  Solly Mack   Sep-22-03 02:57 AM   #83 
 

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