Seventh Cavalry routed!

The United States military has suffered its first major defeat of Operation Iraqi Liberation, with the routing of its elite Seventh Calvary by a small but gutsy band of Iraqi defenders on the outskirts of Baghdad.
"The battle by all accounts was going smashingly," Brigadeer General Brooks told the daily media briefing at coalition headquarters in Qatar.
"It had been a fair fight up to that point, for the Iraqis had come out of the city like we'd demanded of them under the Geneva Convention.
"The towelheads had dug in a few feet into the sand and we were systematically making them permanently unwell through carpet bombing from 30,000 feet.
"Once one of the 5000 pieces of bunker-busting ordance we dropped took out their World War II-vintage tank, it was a fairly routine and fair firefight.
"Hundreds of artillery pieces joined in for a day or so, and just as soon as 45 squadrons of Apache attack helicopter gunships had raked the defensive position with roughly the amount of ammunition expended in both World Wars - just to be on the safe side - the Seventh Cavalry troops were ordered forward to count the pieces when disaster struck."
Brooks said one of the Iraqi defenders had donned a full Sioux war head-dress and popped his head up over his defensive position before tapping his lips over and over again with his fingers making a "whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo" sound.
The cavalry's commander General George Custer XII (left) did his best to keep his troops coming forward, but added ruefully: "My boys just turned tail and scattered. I haven't seen or heard from them since."

Meanwhile in Washington, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld attacked the Iraqi tactics as totally opposed to the ideals of modern warfare and a flagrant breach of the Geneva Convention.
"Up until that stage it had been a fair fight," he said.
He warned any Arab country that provided the Iraqis with the headdress or who trained the soldier to go "whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo" with their lips would be in real trouble.