Operation Dice Drop for Zigggurat Con in Iraq

LandGator wrote with some information about the upcoming Ziggurat Con. Their catch phrase: "Where RPG isn't just a Rocket Propelled Grenade." This very special tabletop gaming event will be held on June 9th of this year ... at Camp Adder /Talil Airbase in Iraq. For nine hours on that day, gamers currently deployed to Iraq will be able to forget about the conflict by rolling dice and playing games. The con organizers are looking for willing folks to donate games and dice to the soldiers, as well as a little recognition for the d20-rolleres in harms way this year. "The Con's historical landmark 'mascot' -- the Ziggurat -- can be found on the post, and hails from the ancient city of Ur. Nearby is the house where it is believed that Abraham (a large figure in the Bible, the Koran and the Torah) was born. Cool digs for a Con -- if not for the fact that there's a war going on. [Convention organizer David] Amberson, however, emphasized the need for soldiers to relax and kick back with enjoyable activities from time to time."

Comments

...and the winner...

[Wonko the Sane]

of the "Most Incomprehensible Headline" Award goes to...

Re:...and the winner...

[Teddy Beartuzzi]

No kidding. I thought Ziggurat Con was some new kind of Pyramid Scheme.

Re:Would it be in poor taste...

[spezz]

No, poor taste would be insisting that you be allowed to use "improvised magical devices"

Re:Nice Gesture

[Tickletaint]

They're not defending our freedom or our way of life. They're defending a series of lies this administration has yet to own up to.

The best thing we could have done for our boys and girls—and not just the ones fighting the war—would have been NOT TO SEND THEM THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Re:Nice Gesture

[Jame_Retief]

You are apparently blathering on, lost in your hatred. Even I, who have a deep and real fear of Hitlery getting elected, recognize that Bill Clinton had things he did well. The fact that you cannot see past your own prejudices and find that the soldiers ARE defending our way-of-life simply shows how narrow-minded you really are. What lies are being covered up? The ones that Pres. Clinton told when HE said that Iraq had WMD? Or when all the other members of that administration said the same thing? STOP DRINKING THE KOOL-AID and THINK FOR YOURSELF!!! If we were not busy draining the blood out of terrorism in Iraq we would be doing it here . . . which strikes me as being VERY BAD for our kids. Paricularly my own. It is great that the soldiers are looking to play games and relax. Besides which, maybe the organizer is using the time-tested approach of misleading the enemy and not telling the truth about when & where.

Re:Nice Gesture

[Rakishi]

If we were not busy draining the blood out of terrorism in Iraq we would be doing it here . . . which strikes me as being VERY BAD for our kids. And where do you think the now massively enlarged, better funded, better organized, battle hardened terrorists will attack once the US leaves Iraq? You're an idiot if you think they haven't been spending all this time finding (and not sending to their deaths) all the terrorists intelligent enough for a mission to the US. Thats not even talking about what will happen in 10 years when all the anti-US fervor and hatred that we've sowed in youths will finally be reaped. Or that we've turned Iraq over to the same religious group than runs Iran.

Re:lemme be the first...

[Anonymous Coward]

Wars are crazy and psychopathic.
Not everyone makes it out ok mentally.

Unlike what some would have you believe, the casualties are not anywhere near as bad as Vietnam or Korea or WW2 or WW1.

I know a guy who was in vietnam, he lost 70 some odd percent of the guys in his platoon on the second day there. Then they promote him to just under the leader, cause everyone was pretty much dead. There goes the innocent 17 year old farm kid trying to get off the farm.

Go insult people who deserve it.

Was that a joke?

[cheekyboy]

Muwhahahaaah

10x more people die yearly from car fatalities caused by illegal immigrants in USA than of 911.

Is maths that hard to comprehend?

Those countries at war, never threatened usa, and never cared what you did at home, but your USA govt did, it cares, so much that it regulates it, checks it, makes sure you
obey the law. Unless you make millions, you have no freedoms really.

Re:Nice Gesture

[Rakishi]

There are not lots of people getting out. Their best and brightest go to Iraq and we KILL them. Dead is dead. You actually think an organization the size of some terrorist groups isn't keeping the best out of combat? You do realize that the best for fighting in Iraq and the best for fighting in the US are two very different types of people, right?

The ones who live . . . are those providing the funding and direction (notice that Osama did not himself volunteer to fly one of those planes). Guess what? Of course the ones in charge don't sacrifice their lives, Bush isn't there fighting either last I checked.

If it comes that they still want to come here ten years from now we will still slaughter them. You mean like we slaughtered the hijackers on 9/11... last I checked we didn't so so well on stopping that one. I mean how do you think they'll attack is in the future.

But their funding will be less, not more. Ten years from now there will be less reliance (with some luck since the Democratic hypocrites don't want to cut back on oil use) on oil and foreign oil in particular. US oil usage is going up all the time as are prices, in 10 years we'll be if lucky using the same amount of oil. You think that in 3 years anyone will even give a damn about limiting foreign oil?

The one step that the Left in our country will not take in defeating terrorism . . . siding with the Right to do it. They succeeded in turning our victory in Vietnam into defeat Lol, Vietnam was a clusterfuck which gained nothing. It'd have gained nothing even if we had held the damn country from uniting.

and will continue push defeat out of the jaws of victory here. Victory? Christ you're insane. We're losing more lives every day, Iraq is essentially in a civil war, oil prices are at a record high, the US is hated world wide, Afghanistan is returning to what it was before the war, Iran is making nukes and we don't even have the forces left to invade them if need be.

Re:lemme be the first...

[Anonymous Coward]

The fact that you need to remind us that all members of the military are not "raving psychopaths", as if this bit of information is revolutionary and surprising, shows an astounding lack of critical thinking and reasoning skills. This is probably not surprising since you and your friends are "rabidly anti-military", which is in and of itself a stunningly ignorant thing to be. As if being a member of the military somehow makes you responsible for those above you who make decisions you may or may not agree with.

Re:Nice Gesture

[Watson Ladd]

If countries that harbor terrorists, invade democracies for picking leaders whose policies they oppose, and support vicious dictators(too many to list) deserve invasion to restore democracy, then America is at the top of the list. Considering that 60% percent of the people who voted for Bush considered that "moral values" meant social justice or reducing greed (Chomsky, Noam Failed States) I seriously do not see anything wrong with such an action, other then the fact that Americans should be doing it themselves.