Casual browsing of the 'nets led me to stumble over this bombshell.
It's one of those minor niggling points that escapes notice for far too long (inexcusably long), but once highlighted, makes you feel as if you were awakened by being dunked in a vat of ice-cold peppermint mouthwash. Yeah, one of those moments.
I don't know if we should blame profiteering defense contractors for providing our military with faulty equipment, or if our troops are not receiving their proper training, or if the insurgents have somehow developed some sophisticated new defensive armor, but I firmly believe that addressing this Achilles' heel will provide us with far more than a pair of rhetorical crutches..
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According to Yahoo News,
"An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house..."
our bullets aren't mushrooming or exploding. Probably because whatever used to propel them (a slingshot perhaps?) was not igniting the primer and actually FIRING the bullet. Maybe our military has been infiltrated by parties unknown who are teaching our soldiers to throw the bullets ("it's quieter, they won't know where you're positioned!").. In that case we'd better pray that the insurgents follow our lead and start throwing them back. (Maybe that's our real chance for peace right there!)
OK, joking aside, the real question remains: Why was this photo granted the legitimacy befitting an actual news item? (Probably by the same divine mechanism that led you to believe I was writing a serious and substantive diary...)