[Rhodes22-list] Re: Joke - todays headlines

[Rik Sandberg]

Rummy,

When I was I basic training, we had to learn how to operate and deploy (throw 
just as damned far as you can) hand grenades. These little buggers weigh just 
a couple of pounds, as I'm sure you know. After pulling the pin and throwing 
them as far as we could, which only amounted to about fifty feet, we threw 
ouselves down on the floor of the concrete bunker. WWWHHUUMMPP, they went off 
with an almost deafening concussion and I swear to God the shock raised us 
off the floor of that bunker a foot. I'd hate to be anywhere near when 500, 
let alone a couple thousand pounds of this stuff goes off. AWESOME.

Rik


On Tuesday 01 April 2003 06:15 am, you wrote:
> Rik,
> I'm with you on this one. Conventional and those non-conventional smart
> bombs are enough to get anyone to submit. When I was in Vietnam I
> experienced the 500 pounders dropped from B52's. I was never less than a
> couple of miles away, but the concussion were incredible. The craters were
> always fifteen to twenty feet deep and about thirty feet across. Anything
> that got in the way was simply gone. Seeing the bombs drop on TV doesn't
> really give you a good idea as to what it is like when you are the target
> of one of those bunker busters. A couple of days of bombing will make
> anyone want to throw up the white flag and give it up. It tends to get on
> ones nerves.
>
> Rummy
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Rik Sandberg <sanderico@earthlink.net>
> > To: Rhodes 22 List <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
> > Date: 3/31/2003 11:49:25 PM
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Re: Joke - todays headlines
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > Nah, I'm not in favor of us using nukes, chems, or bio, in any
>
> circumstances.
>
> > Too much chance of hurting folks that just don't need to be hurt. And,
>
> God
>
> > only know where the fallout might go. It's not worth it. We've got enough
> > conventional bombs to obliterate most of Iraq, without nukes, if need be.
> >
> > If Saddam should decide to unleash such an atrocity though, the mean
>
> spirited
>
> > side of me thinks he sould be hunted down like a dog, if it take the next
> > thirty years to do it. When he is caught, alive of course, but well
> > tenderized, if a brush chipper is not handy, then one should be
>
> procurred. Of
>
> > course we will explain to Saddam that the reason his execution is being
> > delayed is that we are waiting for the brush chipper to arrive, this
>
> should
>
> > give him a little something to think about while he waits. Once it gets
>
> there
>
> > (the chipper) we can take Saddam out and show it to him. Fire it up,
>
> maybe
>
> > run a branch or two through it to make sure it's working right. Make sure
>
> he
>
> > understands that we are going to feed him into it a little at a time,
>
> feet
>
> > first, and maybe even pull him back a few times, just to make sure that
>
> he is
>
> > truly getting the full benefit of the experience. Of course he needs to
>
> know
>
> > also that we will use his remains to slop some farmers hogs when the
>
> chipper
>
> > is done with him. Being turned into pork, that should make him very
>
> happy.
>
> > Then when we have him positioned just right and ready to feed in, the
>
> kind
>
> > hearted side of me takes over and we  just shoot him in the head and
>
> leave
>
> > him lie there for the vultures. Well, we could feed him to some farmer's
>
> hogs
>
> > anyway, but I don't know if the hogs would have him.
> >
> > Sometimes, I'm a pretty nice guy
> > Rik
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