Cometh the Terminator

From Tim on p.o.t. a great article headline

Combat Robot Attempts Rebellion Against Human Masters in Iraq, Army Pulls Plug for 10-20 Years

Ah shame about the article itself, it could have been so much better...

'The army's machine-gun wielding, insurgent-slaying robot SWORDS will soon be ready for deployment in Iraq. "We had some problems with the original software" said a DoD spokesman, "Originally it would only target enemy combatants, but after many months of work the SWORD will now target enemies, civilians, and allied troops as efficiently as any American soldier."

The SWORD has been the subject of years of military research and testing to produce a robot capable of replacing front-line American troops, with the latest addition to the hardware being a pair of front-mounted speakers playing a continuous loop of rap and heavy metal music interspersed by only a few racial insults.

"They're so much like the real thing it's scary" said one developer, "once we've managed to write software that'll allow the robots to force prisoners into naked human pyramids then they'll be ready to roll. It's a culmination of the American Government's Dream, to be able to ride roughshod into a country and shoot all the inhabitants with no possibility of seeing dead American troops appearing on soft liberal news channels"'.