Remainders: You Grooving Washington? You Grooving?

• We definitely think the fact that it was a grenade and some weed is the funniest part. [The Boston Channel]

• If you listen really close, just before the music starts, you can hear that little Bush giggle; it totally ties the melody together. [Huffington Post]

• They’ve got it all wrong, there’s nothing strange about having an Iran-Contra arms dealer and discredited intelligence asset around, they’re the ones with the best jokes. What else are you gonna do sitting in a duck blind all day? [Raw Story]

• Oh please, just let the starving janitors die already, it’s obvious that Donna Shalala is the one who’s really good at cleaning up. [Star Tribune; NYT]

• For today’s installment of depressingly obvious metaphors, you need look no further: [Attytood]

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Babylon Sisters, Shaken

The U.S. Military admitted today to staging the most obvious metaphor imaginable for all the various glaring fuck-ups they’ve made in Iraq since 2003…

The British Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday that after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, U.S. Marines had built a helicopter pad on the ruins of Babylon and filled their sandbags with archaeological fragments from the ancient city. It said vibrations from U.S. helicopters caused the roof of one building to collapse.

Well. Beautiful. Just beautiful. THIS ENTIRE WAR WAS SCRIPTED BY A HACK.

Col. John Coleman, former chief of staff for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq, told the BBC that if the head of the Iraqi antiquities board wanted an apology, and “if it makes him feel good, we can certainly give him one.”

Jeez, quit living in the past, Iraqi antiquities board.

You know, when the fucking Macedonian’s conquered it, they didn’t grind it up to put in sandbags, Colonel.

U.S. Admits Military Damaged Babylon [MSNBC]

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