35 Personnel

Yahoo! News - Iraq Mortar Attack Wounds 35 U.S. Soldiers:

Well, insurgent personnel on the ground engaged 35 of our personnel with mortars. Translation: Angry people in Iraq hurt 35 of our guys with bombs. This brings two questions to my mind tonight. I'm tired, so I'll be brief.

Why didn't we send anyone along to Iraq who can speak to the media without sounding like a wind-up GI Joe? Personnel means a group of people working in a particular place, such as an office, and the department within a company concerned with them (e.g., Personnel Department). It is not interchangeable with the word people. ... "The building was searched and no weapons or personnel were found. Upon questioning, civilians in the area reported two dead personnel were taken to a nearby hospital." Translation: We searched the building we blew up, but didn't find any weapons or people. But their neighbors said they took two dead people to the hospital.

What in the wide world of sports are our troops doing in Iraq now? Searching for what or whom? Neutralizing what regime or WMD? None of the reasons that Mr. Bush and his flying monkeys cited for this war still exists, except bringing lovely democracy to the forlorn Iraq people. News flash: they don't want it, can't use it, thank you very much but scram.

Time to get out of Dodge, because no matter what reason they think they still have for our people being there, it's not worth human lives.