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    Morocco the greatest ally America has

    Morocco offers US monkeys to detonate mines
    IANS
    Rabat, March 24

    A Moroccan publication accused the government on Monday of providing unusual assistance to US troops fighting in Iraq by offering them 2,000 monkeys trained in detonating land mines, reports UPI.

    The weekly al-Usbu' al-Siyassi reported that Morocco offered the US forces a large number of monkeys, some from the country's Atlas Mountains and others imported, to use them for detonating land mines planted by the Iraqis.

    The publication quoted an informed source as saying: "That is not a scientific illusion but a well-known military tactic."
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    Are these suicide monkeys, or trained de-mining monkeys?
    Lime roots and treachery!
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    • #3
      - that's even better then the Danish contribution of a submarine.
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      • #4
        well i'll be a monkey's uncle!

        actually the white house monkey alliance didn't start with Bush II, it goes all the way back to reagan with "bedtime for bonzo"

        and you've heard "If you put an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet"

        lol maybe we should change it to

        "If you put an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the white house's plan for international diplomacy"

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        • #5
          We can't train our own monkeys?

          ACK!
          Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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          • #6
            I believe it was during the early days of WW2 that Canada sent a bunch of horses over to the French to bolster their calvalry.

            Needless to say, calvalry was rather obsolete by that time, but the French found the horses to be delicious.

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            • #7
              On that topic, how do you teach a monkey to detonate landmines? What's there to learn?
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              • #8
                Well, that was my question: are the monkeys actually trained at disarming mines, or do they just release them into the minefields and watch them explode?
                Lime roots and treachery!
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                • #9
                  I belive the latter, which is an improvement over the earlier procedure.

                  Send conscripts into the minefields and watch them explode.
                  No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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                  • #10
                    Do they work for bananas?
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                    • #11
                      Why would you need monkeys if you were just gonna let them explode? Why not, say, sheep?
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior
                        Why would you need monkeys if you were just gonna let them explode? Why not, say, sheep?
                        The Kiwis and the Welsh are too busy to make the offer.
                        I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                        For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                        • #13
                          Why would you need monkeys if you were just gonna let them explode? Why not, say, sheep?
                          but think of all of the lonely backwoods guys you'd be denying the oppertunity for a little love and companionship if you just heartlessly send sheep to their deaths!

                          though slightly more on topic on cnn tonight i saw that the navy had trained dolphins to put markers down to make mines in the ocean, so maybe the monkey's know to put down flag or something when they find a mine

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior
                            Why would you need monkeys if you were just gonna let them explode? Why not, say, sheep?
                            That's what I would think. Besides, animal rights activists would have a collective cardiac episode if the US government were using animals, not to mention monkeys, to blow up landmines.
                            Lime roots and treachery!
                            "Eventually you're left with a bunch of unmemorable posters like Cyclotron, pretending that they actually know anything about who they're debating pointless crap with." - Drake Tungsten

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by korn469
                              "If you put an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the white house's plan for international diplomacy"

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