Oerdin's Iraq thread.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Theben


You mean awesome? Not to nitpick but if you're in charge of civilian propaganda you better be able to spell.

p.s. Sorry about your comrades-in-arms. Hope it's the worst you go through.

As I stated earilier I am writing on a public computer and do not have time to spell check everything. Especially since it doesn't have MS Word installed.

[Agathon]

Have you bought a Saddam Hussein watch yet?

[Dinner]

Nope, nor have I seen one of sale either.

[Agathon]

Shame - Tucker Carlson had one. They are kind of neat.

[Dinner]

I do see lots of Iraqis trying to sell the worthless old money with Saddam's face on it to G.I.s. So idiots even pay $5 for a worthless piece of paper.

Still, I think I'll pick up one on the sly as a momento.

[East Street Trader]

Thanks for sharing your experiences with us, Oerdin. Your posts convey so much more than anything to be found in media stories or the like.

I don't suppose improving the drains and sewers would dispel all the hate but I hope some time is found for such things. Small improvements to infrastructure would be a poor return for people dying and losing their hearing and so on but it would be some little positive thing.

The UK managed to shed its empire with a measure of grace in the end, and subsequently to enjoy surprisingly warm relations with peoples whose countries had formerly been occupied. I think that is mostly to do with according people respect but it might also have something to do with the liking which the British have for improving the odd road or sewer if they come across existing ones that don't work so well.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Oerdin
The only other news is that we've adopted a stray dog which looks to be no more then a few months old. We've named him Roscoe and he's a little brown and white mutt who seems very eager to please and he's willing to eat just about everything in sight. One of the guys in the unit feed Roscoe a bunch of people food yesterday so the dog spent most of today with the runs. I'm going to look into buying some bog food from Petco.com and see if that doesn't agree with his system a bit more. Hopefully, once he's feeling better I will be able to train him to follow simple commands in English such as "sit", "lay down", "come here", etc...

My dog was instrumental in helping me rid my grandfather's ranch of a pack of coyotes one summer. He would come and wake me when they got near and lead me right to them. I'm really enjoying the Blog, so please keep writing. My thoughts are with you daily.

[Chemical Ollie]

When using MS Paint for picture editing, make sure to save them as .jpg, not .bmp. Apolyton does not show bmp directly on the screen, they have to be downloaded.

[Proteus_MST]

Great Blog, Oerdin

[Theben]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
When using MS Paint for picture editing, make sure to save them as .jpg, not .bmp. Apolyton does not show bmp directly on the screen, they have to be downloaded.

Yeah, could you change that to a jpeg? I apparently can't download your file, thanks to Poly's latest ad scheme...

[Mercator]

Here ya go...

[Theben]

thx

p.s. ouch!!

[Dinner]

There is Justice in this world.

It appears there is justice in this world after all though sometimes you need to be patient to see it work. Over the last three days there has been a big hub-bub over the 1st Infantry Division was going to make my Psyop company move to a different palace or not. Naturally, none of us wanted to move especially since our current palace is centrally located in the middle of the base with easy access to both MWR and the dinning facility, however, our neighborhood has become fashionable with the upper brass and a pecking order has developed to determine who gets to stay in the most desirable palaces.

The area around Saddam's old palace is the furthest point from the outer walls you can get on base and that means it is the most protected from mortor and sniper attacks. The 1st ID's upper brass seems to be very aware of the areas relative safety and so they are reserving it all for themselves and are forcing the current residents to pack up and find new homes. Just yesterday we got the final conformation that we'd be moving into a much smaller guest house located on the banks of the Tigris river (the side of the base with no protective wall which is a mixed blessing because the river separates us from the locals & car bombs, unlike on the base's other three sides, but there is no defensive wall).

So the upper brass forces lower ranking people into worse defensive positions and reserves the best locations for themselves. Where is the justice you ask? The just comes from the fact that our old palace seems to have suffered a catastrophic sewer leak. The wall of the septic tank ruptured yesterday and a virtual 3 inch deep river of **** flowed up into the house. To top it off the water main seems to be leaking too and the only way to fix it is to cut up the foundation of the house to get to the pipes.

These jerk off officers want the house that badly then they are welcome to it! Now, that's what I call justice.

[Dis]

upper brass is always full of sh!t. I suspect that is the cause.

[East Street Trader]

Sounds like you guys moved out just in time.

From what you see of the locals, does it seem that they are settling down a bit - getting buildings repaired and going to work and so on? Or are things pretty chaotic?