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Laughter in a War Zone
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Thursday May 28, 2009 13:18 by Ronan Gallagher
Sick Jokers for Kilkenny Festival Alonzo Bodden arrived in Ireland this week for the Carlsberg Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival. He’s back here after playing to US troops at Camp Liberty in Iraq. As a former Stealth Bomber mechanic, Alonzo was no stranger to the military world when he signed up to bring a bit of laughter to the lives of troops on active service. The zany comic told Jay Richardson wittily in an interview published in today’s Irish Times.
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Jump To Comment: 1I wonder if the Irish Times knows or cares about the generally anti-war sentiments of its readership when they publish this sort of interview . The article carries not a word about the fact that the same military these people get paid to entertain is responsible for the deaths of over a million Iraqis. When two British servicemen were shot by the IRA two months ago the Irish Times whipped up howls of indignation : howls of laughter for these sicko comedians .