generation kill

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Mish, a Kuwaiti civilian, had volunteered to put his hatred of Iraq to positive use by helping us as a translator. He claimed the Republican Guard had executed his cousin during the Gulf War and then forced his family to pay for the bullet. Mish always looked as if he wanted to sell me a joint.

“Well, sir,” Person said, turning in the seat to face me, oblivious to the fight all around him, “I guess I’m fighting for cheap gas and a world without ragheads blowing up our fucking buildings.”

Luck is not a method, and neither is hope. Hard work is.

Fick has one of those laughs involving momentary loss of control that causes him to pitch forward like someone knocked him on the back of the head

Espera gathers men from his team and Colbert's and passes on the briefing Fick just delivered on the change in the ROE. He summarizes Fick's briefing like this: 'You see a motherfucker through a window with an AK, cap his ass.' But then he warns the men, 'Don't get buck fever like Casey Kasem did the other night at the canal. You cap an old lady sweeping her porch, 'cause you think her broom is a weapon, it's on all of us"