April 15, 2003
Guilding a peasant's weapon
I just now saw a flash of news preview on Fox News, apparently related to a raid on one of Uday Hussein's villas. What a shocker: an apparently gold-plated AK-47! The AK was intended to be a low-maintenance, idiotproof carbine to be issued to dirt-poor illiterate peasants. Amazing to see one gilded.
Reminds me... a few days ago on the same news channel I saw coverage of the booty from another raid, this time on one of Saddam's own hidey-holes. The usual motley assortment of weapons. The Marine guide did what I would have done: he saw a piece he'd not expected and in a "I only have eyes for you" moment picked it up and shouldered it for the camera: it was a new-in-box, pristine Steyr AUG, with the Austrian muzzle cap (plastic dustcover) still attached! Never fired. I had to change my drool bib.
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