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Yesterday, in southern Iraq, U.S. troops provided an ironic example. They named two temporary refueling facilities Camp Shell and Camp Exxon.

A tad indelicate? Deliberately insensitive, given the criticism that the United States has undertaken the war to secure Iraqi oil? Neither, said a Pentagon spokesman, who explained that the camps are "basically gas stations."
c/o WP.

originally posted by xowie

Posted by Adam on March 26, 2003 12:51 PM |

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So intense was the fighting that at one stage the 3rd Squadron commander's driver, Private First Class Randall Duke Newcomb, was forced to steer his Humvee with one hand while firing out of the window with the other.
'Duke Newcomb'? 'Just Like Apocalypse Now.

Posted by: xowie | March 26, 2003 1:03 PM

Duke Nukem? What's the reference here?

Posted by: sudama | March 26, 2003 2:00 PM

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