Friday, March 25, 2005

Camp Bucca Heroes

The Iraqi prisoners in Camp Bucca dug a 600 ft escape tunnel. After a head count, all 5600 were accounted for. I don't know about any body else but I aint buying it. This sounds too much like Hogan's Heroes to me. All those hours of vegging in front of the TV were not for waste. The Germans used to have head counts all the time in that ancient tv show. Col. Hogan would slip out for meetings, dates and holidays. The good ole American prisoners and a couple Brits, had a system for replacing whoever escaped down the escape tunnel, thus, the head counts always came out confirming no one had escaped. I wonder if anyone has any footage of Camp Bucca and what was actually going on there. It seems that we could have the reality tv version of Hogan's Heroes on our hands. This could beat out the OJ - extended by popular demand - mini series. I guess the plumbers are happy at Camp Bucca. They now know why the toilets were clogged. Must have been alot of dirt flushing going on there.
The irony in all this is that we are the Natzi Germans in this reality show. Can you blame anyone for trying to escape a torture chamber? The role of Shultz: "I know nothing. Nothing!" gets to be played collectively by a host of characters. How soon before someone is selling escape tunnel dirt on Ebay? When will the first reality tv in a prison show begin? I'm sure there's alot of folks who' like to watch other folks watch tv.