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Rumor mill keeps Marines entertained.
Byline: Nahal Toosi
SOUTHERN IRAQ _ Jennifer Lopez was supposed to visit the Marines of the 6th Engineer Support Battalion on a USO tour weeks ago. She did not show.
Neither did Britney Spears, Shania Twain, nor Kid Rock.
Osama bin Laden has not been captured. Saddam Hussein did not accept exile in Russia. The war, apparently, will not end in March.
The truth can hurt. Rumors, though, provide lots of entertainment, and in the heat-scorched, sand-blasted camps the battalion has established here and in Kuwait, rumors fly, bite, fester, evolve and have a life span of weeks. The insects can barely keep up. Even during wartime, when the ...
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