WARNING! BULLSHIT ALERT!!
February 28, 2008So I come home from work, boot up the Dell Inspiron 531, launch Firefox and am greeted with what I consider to be a piece of bullshit of such size that it’s truly Biblical in proportion…
Behold, the greatest piece of complete and utter bullshit I have seen in the last 6 months.
I’m attaching a link to the complete story, but for the purposes of brevity I’m only going to highlight the most bullshitty pieces.
Click here for the complete “story”.
UK officials: Prince Harry serving on front line in Afghanistan
LONDON (AP) - Prince Harry has been deployed to fight Taliban forces in one of Afghanistan’s most lawless and barren provinces, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said Thursday.
His tour is arguably the most dangerous undertaken by any royal in recent times.
British military officials had hoped to keep the 23-year-old’s deployment secret until he had returned safely. But following a leak on the U.S. Web site the Drudge Report, video and interviews recorded with the young royal in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand Province and in Britain before his departure were released.
“I got here on Christmas Eve and going from bullet magnet to anti-bullet magnet, most of the guys were pretty bummed that I was here because nothing was happening for the first few days that I was here but things are picking up again now because it’s obviously quite boring when nothing is happening,” Harry said after he arrived in Afghanistan.
He threatened to quit the army if he was not given the chance to see combat.
But then his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, delivered the news.
“She told me I’m off to Afghanistan so that was the way it was supposed to be,” he said in an interview in Afghanistan, his hair coated with dust and his face in stubble. “She was very ‘pro’ me going then so I think she’s relieved that I get the chance to do what I want to do,” he said. He says he tries to phone home once a week.
Harry said his older brother, William, who also graduated from Sandhurst, is jealous of his deployment. William, the second in line for the throne, is unlikely to see such front line action.
Harry, 23, has been fighting in Helmand province, where most of the 7,800 British troops in Afghanistan are based. The province has been the scene of some the fiercest violence in Afghanistan in recent years.
Harry’s work in Afghanistan has involved calling in airstrikes on Taliban positions, as well as going out on foot patrols. He has spent part of his deployment at an operating base just 500 meters (yards) from Taliban positions, the military said.
During his deployment, Harry’s battle group has been responsible for around 30 enemy kills, a defense ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with department policy.
“It’s bizarre,” he said. “I’m out here now, haven’t really had a shower for four days, haven’t washed my clothes for a week and everything seems completely normal. .. It’s nice just to be here with all the guys and just mucking in as one of the lads.”
“He has been fully involved in operations and has run the same risks as everyone else in his battle group,” Dannatt said.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said “the whole of Britain will be proud of the outstanding service he is giving.”
Video extracts of Harry in Afghanistan showed Harry - his red hair caked in dust - dressed in camouflage fatigues patrolling arid and dusty terrain, calling in air support, firing a machine gun and patrolling the streets of Garmsir, the southernmost part of the province and just 500 yards (meters) from Taliban trenches.
Harry had trained as a tank commander. After the decision not to send him to Iraq, he retrained as a battlefield air controller, the job he has been filling in Afghanistan.
British troops have seen heavy fighting against a resurgent Taliban in Helmand, and 89 British troops have died there since the start of operations in 2001.
If anyone out there reading this honestly believes that Prince Harry is in any danger whatsoever then please, do me a favor…stop reading and go directly to the Fox News website.
If Prince Harry comes out of Afghanistan with anything other then a severe sunburn then it’ll be a fucking miracle.
