Were the good guys

[pynchonoid]

Hundreds sign ‘Bomb For Saddam’ to support troops
By Scott SonnerASSOCIATED PRESS

Hundreds jammed a Circus Circus Hotel-Casino
restaurant for a pro-troops rally Tuesday night,
waving flags and signing slogans on an 8-foot long,
red-white-and-blue copy of a bomb with Saddam
Hussein’s name on it.

Dozens of adults and children ate free hors d’ouevres
and cake at Circus Circus while waiting in long lines
with markers to sign the four-finned, metal bomb
facsimile.

Some of the messages were directed at the Iraqi
leader, “Go ahead, make my day,” and “Die you gravy
sucking pig.”

But most encouraged U.S. troops, “We love you guys,
come home safe,” and “Go get them U.S.”

Connie O’Malley of Reno said she came to write, “God
Bless America,” on the bomb.

“I felt it was time to express how the silent majority
feels. I hope we won’t be silent,” she said.

Pam Eaton of Sparks wrote, “Go Team USA.”

“My son is guarding Nellis (Air Force Base) right
now,” she said of Sgt. Michael Eaton, who is stationed
near Las Vegas.

A local auto body shop built the “KOH (Radio) Bomb”
for conservative talk show host Rusty Humphries, who
organized the rally and broadcast it live as a
substitute for his show’s five-year anniversary party
at Art Gecko’s Southwest Grill in Circus Circus.

“I wanted to turn it into a pro-troop rally, a
pro-America rally, a pro-president rally — positive,
positive, positive,” said Humphries, who lives in Reno
and is heard in syndication nationally.

Humphries said there have been attempts in the
national media “to paint America and the troops as the
bad guys.

“We’re the good guys,” he said.

More than 250 people filled the restaurant to capacity
20 minutes after the event began and Circus Circus
marketing director Dean Richard said as many as 500
passed through during the 2 1/2 hour event. They
munched on free pineapple and burritos and carried
signs that read, “War protesters — free flights to
Iraq,” “First Iraq, then France, then Germany” and
“War protesters, leave now, avoid the rush, we need
human shields.”

Humphries said he was recording the show and would
make copies on compact discs to be sent to U.S. troops
in Iraq. He encouraged listeners earlier in the week
to turn out to autograph the fake bomb, which he said
hoped somehow to get to Iraq.

“It’s not a live bomb. We got the blowing-up stuff
out,” he said Monday.

“Our goal is to get that bomb and drop it right on his
head — just crush in Saddam’s skull with that bomb
casing. That would be good for me,” he said.

“If we can’t get it over there, we’ll put it on
display so everybody can see it,” he said.
	

"the chaplain, the doctor, your mother hoping to hang
that Gold Star, the vapid soprano last night on the
Home Service programme, let's not forget Mr. Noel
Coward so stylish and cute about death and the
afterlife, packin them into the Duchess for the fourth
year running, the lads in Hollywood telling us how
grand it all is over here how much fun. Walt Disney
causing Dumbo the elephant to clutch to that feather
like how many carcasses under the snow tonight among
the waite-painted tanks, how many hands each frozen
around a Miraculous Medal, lucky piece of worn bone,
half-dollar with the grinning sun peering up under
Liberty's wispy gown, clutching, dumb, when the 88
fell--what do you think, it's a children's story? 
There aren't any. The children are away dreaming, but
the Empire has no place for dreams and it's Adults
Only in here tonight"
Gravity's Rainbow, pp. 134-135
 	 
 

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