Ted Rall for November 27, 2004
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"3 more Marines die in roadside bombing." soon we'll eliminate that daily headline, thanks to the upcoming Occupation Safety Rut. (Osama: Osama here, I'm not in Iraq, but if I were, I'd love these long, flat, dusty, trash-strewn highways. They're perfect for I.E.D.s (Infidel execution devices!) Unfortunately for me, the occupation safety rut- a pair of reinforced concrete walls attached to a repaved road- makes it impossible to attack American occupation convoys. At a cost of $80,000 per mile, it'll cost at least $2 billion to install the safety rut on Iraq's 24,000 miles of roadway. And the locals will get seriously annoyed. The occupation safety rut: The more you make sense, the think about you it more.