I forsee the words "Patriot missile", "friendly fire" and "twatwaffle" in his future.

/ Mystic Frank.

(original from Penny Arcade)

It'll be great as long as he doesn't drop any pork rinds.

Pretty cool gesture, IMHO.

Dammit Absinthe, you beat me to it.

::waiting for this to turn into a flame war::

it's safer than dropping Korans from the sky

Hey knock him all you want. That is very sweet. /rimshot
CC

This was done back in 1945 in germany. Though not at wartime.

What a Farking terrible article!

get a load of this...

When the Soviets formed a blockade around Berlin after World War II, Halvorsen and other U.S. pilots airlifted food, medicine and other supplies into the city.

Amazing how that writing made the 'commies' into the bad guys just becuse they got to Berlin first. The Soviets 'broke the back of the axis' (I think churchill said that), and now their bad guys for keeping chocolate away from children.

Fark that authour. But the army dude himself is alright.

or wait...when did this happen?

Ant exterminator companies surrender.

OK, but don't come crying to me if those idiots blow you up!

Okay, so these kids are starving and when they do get to eat it's candy? Talk about future diabetics in the making.

Sounds like the kids of the poverty-stricken folks who used to come through my line when I worked at Kroger - food stamps bought chips and "juice" (sugar water).

fat chance of the kids eating it. what if that dude who told the kids about exploding pencils tells the kids that the candies will taste like burning?

Cat_Swing, they werent trying to make the commies the enemy. Your just interpreting it that way, the author made no notions that the Russians were evil.

I hope they let him go through with it.

Iraqi Information Minister: "The infidels, in their humiliating bout of failure and defeat, are filling Snickers with dog doodie and giving it to Iraqi children!"

Commies are the enemy. Duh!

That's right, let's rot away whatever teeth the kids have left

I say let it go. Why not?

Attention Headline Writer:
Marshall Plan > World War Two (function: TIME)

Ya, but it was implied in his style. He makes a link between the lines, 'when the soviets were doing this, we were dropping candy' sort of deal.

Just very nationalistic writing.

But mind you, I read they are almost out of anti-biotics and morphine (or whatever they use) in all the hospitals, I think that would be a much better thing to give them.

Dumb-ass US air force will shoot his candy ass out of the sky

probably

Hep Cat, this was done in 1948 during the Berlin Airlift. That's when the USSR tried to blockade West Berlin from the west so that we would surrender the city and they would have control of the entire thing, not just East Berlin. During this, they really were the bad guys.

Commies are the enemy. Duh!

Yes, how dare anyone have an ideological adversion to free-market capatilism. Let's burn em!

"Iraq today was hit with a MoaB (Mother of all Bon-Bons )..."

i'd say dropping fruit would be a great idea if yo dont want lil kids developing scurvy. when you think they're dropping food, they're not really just dropping snickers and junk at 300 mph right? like they would come in parachuted crates or something?

ZtigerX
Try telling the millions of Russians who REALLY stopped facism that they were the bad guys.

fascism

But mind you, I read they are almost out of anti-biotics and morphine (or whatever they use) in all the hospitals, I think that would be a much better thing to give them.

Typical commie thinking. "Comrade, be happy with what you do have. How can you expect to have both bread and meat?"

ZTigerX

ya, take a look at my comment right under my first one. Still phrases like 'bad guys' is not accurate either. Bad is way to subjective.

Man, I've been writing an essay all day, and I think it's getting to me.

Just very nationalistic writing.

Nothing wrong with being nationalistic.
We are citizens of the USA first, the world second.

Thornhill,
That's right, the one snickers bar each kid might be lucky to find is instantly going to rot all of their teeth out. Some people can find something to complain about everything.

imagine the wackiness if he dropped a glass coke bottle down there.

By pulling some garbled crap outa my mind, i seem to recall that the candy was dropped in boxes with parachutes, so that the candy wouldn't explode or land on some poor kid's head and burninate the peasants.

Halvorsen, 82, of Spanish Fork, Utah

Crap, we need more funny town names in this country.

Irockalot:

Inevitably, someone would be tasked to drop it off the end of the world.

Chocolate wouldn't be the worst thing you could give them now. It's calorie dense with a lot of fat, and that's a good thing to have around in times like these. Things like chocolate and peanut butter make good survival foods.

Most kids would think free candy dropping from the sky would be pretty cool & could care less about whatever spin the grown-ups want to put on it.
/thinking like a child

Irockalot
imagine the wackiness if he dropped a glass coke bottle down there.

Nice "The Gods must be crazy" ref.

Sure, give those poor Iraqi children cavities. :-p

How about dropping some toothpaste, toothbrushes, and floss along with the candy?

Attention, people of Iraq! Do not eat the delicious candy bars falling from the sky! It is obviously a booby trap laid by the American infidels!

Young_Fart

-I hope you're being ironic.

Mind you the right (wing) thing to do woul be to hide that fact and hope they leave happy with a nice shinny lolly.

Young_Fart

-I hope you're being ironic.

About what?

"Iraqi citizens pull down a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with the help of U.S. soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 70 Armor and 101 Airborne division, in the town of Kerbala southwest of Baghdad, April 6, 2003."

Forget the candy, they are busy at the moment.

M.C.PeePants

-Sure there is when it requires twisting the truth.

I personaly hate nationalism, it does not unite people, it divides them.

My original idea was to drop used syringes from parks but I guess candy works too.

Solzhenisin
"Sure, give those poor Iraqi children cavities. :-p

How about dropping some toothpaste, toothbrushes, and floss along with the candy?"

I think the British Generals would object to dropping tooth paste and brushes, don't you ?

"I'd give my right arm to do it," said retired Air Force Col. Gail Halvorsen.

What perfect irony. If he did give his right arm, he wouldn't be able to fly the bomber.

I say, we cash in on this offer. Perhaps donate the right arm to some poor soldier that got his blown off by an exploding Payday.

dj