Sunday, February 27, 2005

Funny Follies of the Iraq Insurgency

I am still trying to compose myself after reading this hilarious commentary on the Iraqi Resistance version of the Darwin Awards started by Lt. Col. Jim Stockmoe, chief intelligence officer for the First Infantry Division.

Created in 1993 by a student at Stanford University, the Darwin awards commemorate those who "contribute to our gene pool by removing themselves from it in a really stupid way."

"There were three brothers down in Baghdad who had a mortar tube and were firing into the Green Zone," Stockmoe said. "They were storing the mortar rounds in the car engine compartment and the rounds got overheated. Two of these clowns dropped them in the tube and they exploded, blowing their legs off."

The surviving brother sought refuge in a nearby house, but the occupants "beat the crap out of him and turned him over to the Iraqi police," Stockmoe told Harnden, "It was like the movie 'Dumb and Dumber.' "



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