(Also, did you catch the language in the article? "Not just that, but the clips are of private moments between troops and their wives and girlfriends." Presumably calls to boyfriends and husbands was safe?)
This was a satirical piece I co-wrote twenty four effing years ago. Because it was too outrageous to imagine actually happening. Could the Bush administration's contempt for the troops be more palpable?
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Date: 2008-10-09 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 07:34 pm (UTC)Meanwhile the UK info-state continues apace, according to Cory Doctorow: here.
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Date: 2008-10-09 07:41 pm (UTC)I can't decide if I want to forward that immediately to
(Yes, I know you're on her flist and she'll probably see it here.)
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Date: 2008-10-09 07:41 pm (UTC)(Also, did you catch the language in the article? "Not just that, but the clips are of private moments between troops and their wives and girlfriends." Presumably calls to boyfriends and husbands was safe?)
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Date: 2008-10-09 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 11:47 pm (UTC)This stuff always starts as Important National Security Stuff, and always ends as Poking Around People's Sex Lives.
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Date: 2008-10-10 12:28 am (UTC)Could the Bush administration's contempt for the troops be more palpable?