Oops!

[Monica Belevan]

Disregarding the fact that bathing cats is truly a fine art and an exploit 
of Oriental patience in itself, and yet another matter about which master 
Doug has much to learn.

As for the Chinese, they were a celestial people, and would never even have 
flushed Doug down a toilet, had the technology been afforded them at the 
time...something which to us may seem irresistibly tempting, but which would 
surely have met with the beatific censorship of these marvellous Chinese 
princess, as expressed with gallantry in the Book of Pekingduck.

--Monica

>From: calbert at hslboxmaster.com
>To: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Oops!
>Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:03:51 -0400
>
>These and a score of other wedding guest victims of a recent
>mortar accident SHOULD provide ample evidence of the folly of
>demanding pyrotechnic ballistics with your nuptials....I challenge
>anyone to cite the Koran on the topic......
>
>What did they do before the chinese blessed us with gunpowder?
>Wash cats?
>
>love,
>cfa
>
>
>
> >
> > Civilian catastrophe as US bombs Afghan wedding
> >
> > · 250 civilians reported dead or injured
> > · Witnesses say attack lasted 2 hours
> > · Pentagon: 'One bomb went astray'
> >
> > Staff and agencies
> > Monday July 1, 2002
> >
> > US helicopter gunships and jets today fired on an Afghan wedding,
> > killing or injuring at least 250 civilians, witnesses and hospital
> > officials said. [...] Most of the dead and injured were women and
> > children. "We have many children who are injured and who have no
> > family," nurse Mohammed Nadir said. "Their families are gone. The
> > villagers brought these children and they have no parents. Everyone
> > says that their parents are dead." [...] At Bagram air base north of
> > Kabul, the US military spokesman, Colonel Roger King, said an AC-130
> > gunship, a B-52 bomber and other aircraft joined the attack after
> > coalition ground forces came under fire. [...]
> >
> > ...continues at
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,747529,00.html
> >
> >
> > also:
> > http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-afghan-usa-
> > bombing.ht ml
> >
> >
> > Pragmatically speaking, this is probably a good thing, considering how
> > many lives the U.S. military action is probably saving -- what's a few
> > hundred civilian casualties, after all, when you're hard at work
> > slaying evil-doers and keeping the world safe for democracy.
> >




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