Heck, even I could do better

Posted By on March 12, 2003 at 11:48 pm


One of my many multiple personalities is that of an avid hobbyist. I’ve spent many many MANY hours in hobby shops, and even worked at one, once upon a time.
Imagine Kim du Toit working in a gun shop and you’ll get the idea. I have several radio control airplanes in various stages of flightworthiness stored in the garage, and a queue of six more kits I’ll get around to building some day before I die.
So I see this little tidbit and the very first thing that crossed my mind was “Hey, I could do better than that.” Really I could.
Naturally, the Iraqis are expecting the world to believe that this piece of crap is the “drone” Blix famously omitted from his verbal report to the UNSC.

“He’s making a big mistake,” [Iraqi] Brig. Latif said of Mr. Powell. “He knows very well that this aircraft is not used for what he said.”

Well, he got that partially right. This put-up job looks like it was slapped together in a matter of just a couple of days. No one with the slightest clue will fail to recognize this piece of excrement for what it is – a hastily thrown-together propaganda showpiece designed to play on the soft, condescending, ever-so-subtle “aye-rabs can’t do anything right” racism of the press, the French and the other assorted Idiotarians.
Mais, monsieur, if they cannot build a drone, they obviously lack the technical sophistication to make bio-weapons, n’est-ce pas?”

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