Iraqi border. To their surprise, they found the badly

mangled dead body of an Iraqi soldier in a ditch

alongside the road. A short distance up the road,

they found a badly mangled American soldier in a ditch

on the other side of the road, still barely alive.

They ran to him, cradled his blood-covered head and

asked him what had happened.

"Well," he whispered, "I was walking down this road,

armed to the teeth. I came across this heavily armed

Iraqi border guard. I looked him right in the eye and

shouted, 'Saddam Hussein is an unprincipled, lying

piece of trash!'"

"He looked me right in the eye and shouted back,

'Bill Clinton, Tom Daschle, Ted Kennedy and most of

your Democrats are unprincipled, lying pieces of trash

too!'"

"We were standing there shaking hands when the truck

hit us..."