I'm on a Rambo binge--

Watching III, now.

(continued) If only GW Bush had been a Rambo fan!

Col. Trautman just told Col. Zaysen:

"There won't be a victory! Every day, your war machines lose ground to a bunch of poorly armed, poorly equipped freedom fighters.

"The fact is that you underestimated your competition...

(con-2) "If you'd studied your history, you'd know that these people have never given up to anyone.

"They'd rather die than be slaves to an invading army. You can't defeat people like that!

"We tried. We already HAD our Vietnam!!!"

(He's talking about Afghanistan.)

(con-3) Ahh... My favorite scene of the entire movie is when Rambo--toughness personified--physically removes a jagged piece of wood shaped like a crossbow bolt from his side, pours gunpowder into the opening, and then lights it on fire to cauterize the wound.

(con-4) I've always wondered if that would actually work, in such a situation. Would it sterilize the wound and stop the bleeding? Or, is that just Hollywood stuff?

(con-5) Now Rambo just took out an entire squad of elite Spetsnaz commandos with a bow and arrow and his signature, oversized Bowie knife.

P.S. The Spetsnaz leader looks like an angry, 'roided out Tim Tebow.

(con-6) Correction: He *looked* like an angry, 'roided out Tim Tebow, before Rambo blew him up with his own grenade. (How embarrassing.)

(con-7) Ah, there went the scene from the picture I used at the start of this thread, when Rambo tried to take out an attack helicopter on horseback with a Molotov cocktail...

... That didn't work, though. So, he came back and finished the job with a tank.