The Most Dangerous Threat in Iraq?

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The serious injury to one-half of ABC's new nightly news anchor team, and the cameraman responsible for making his eyes look so blue, shows us once again how dangerous and random the violence is in this war zone the chickenhawks have created. I've said it before and god knows I'll say it again, but let's bring our troops home. How is that not supporting them?

But there's a new enemy rearing its ugly head in this mess we call the Iraq War... the turkey. The UN has confirmed the Middle East's first bird flu death.

The turkeys in Iraq (I mean the literal ones now) sort of remind me of King Edward the Whatever in that scene from Braveheart. After the bloody hand-to-hand combat begins in one of the later battle scenes, Patrick MacGoohan (as Edward) calls once again for the archers to let loose.

A foppish English officer nervously says, "But, Sire, we'll hit our men."

"We'll hit them, too," he says with evil glee, knowing he's got more men overall than the Scots. Then William Wallace gets hit in the upper torso with an arrow before chasing after the masked-armored dude who turns out to be Robert the Bruce. William gets disemboweled and screams, "FREEEEEDOM!"

I'm glad I didn't know what a wackadoo Mel Gibson was when I saw that movie the first time.

Anyway, the turkeys in Iraq, like King Edward the Whatever, kill indiscriminately.