While I was out protesting, I gave guest blogger Matt Rossi the run of my blog, in case I ended up in jail or something.

Some of the $30 million in supplementary special equipment purchased since December by the 101st, for example, has urban implications, if not the hint of a medieval siege: 162 battering rams, 486 grappling hooks, 81 folding assault ladders and 81 battle axes.

So, does anyone else think that someone at the Pentagon watched The Two Towers a few too many times? Look, I’m as big a fan of watching John Rhys-Davies whack things as the next guy, but I’d really have to suggest that we not base our military strategy on Peter Jackson movies, if for no other reason that I’m damn afraid that the next film we’d emulate would be Dead Alive. As cool as Father McGruder was, we could use a lot less ass kicking in the name of the Lord or any other divine being right about now.

And yes, since Skarlet is safe and sound and home, I technically have no reason to be posting this here when I have a blog of my own. However, it seemed better suited to here, somehow. I have no idea why. I’m also perfectly aware there are justifiable reasons for arming our soldiers with battle axes considering we’re about to engage in street to street warfare in Baghdad (which, and I know you already know this, will probably result in casualties undreamt of both on our side and theirs…but hey, we’re liberating people, so it’s okay if a few thousand of them end up dead) but I’m still wondering if somebody didn’t get carried away on a requisition, perhaps after a rocking game of D&D or what have you.

-posted by Ezreal

plucked from the ashes of the punkprincess.com archives, reposted 02-28-07