UBL interview

Chuck Munson chuck at tao.ca
Thu Dec 13 14:13:23 PST 2001


Michael Pollak wrote:
>
> I guess the list has gone quiet because everyone's watching?
>
> One minor point -- it seems from this that it wasn't true that the muscle
> on the planes didn't know they were going to die. Rather they didn't know
> they were going to die *that day.* But if we take UBL at his word, they
> all trained as "martyrs," which implies they signed up consciously
> planning to die for the cause some day, whenever ordered to -- kind of
> like those kids dressed in white in Hamas marches.

Excuse me, but some of us don't even have a working TV. And if I had one, I wouldn't be wasting my time watching yet another sensational video.

<< Chuck0 >>

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INTERNATIONALISM IN PRACTICE

An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said, "I was told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to shout ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ If he shoots, he’s unfriendly. So I saw this dude and yelled ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ and he yelled back, ‘To hell with President Johnson!’ We were shaking hands when a truck hit us."

(from 1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft, by Tuli Kupferburg).



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