THE DOGS WHO HANDLE THE DOGS: GIs detained a woman engineer in Baghdad when she refused to submit her handbag (containing the sacred book KORAN) to a dog sniffing for explosives. (Muslims see dogs as unclean.)
Then the GIs tactfully threw the sacred book onto the ground.
Immediately a large protest rally formed. "We don't just want the dogs removed," said one man, "We want the dogs who handle the dogs to leave!"/Reuters21OCT
Getting that excited over a dog?!
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We've offered $25 million for binLaden, dead or alive; also $25 million for Saddam. NEITHER HAS BEEN TURNED IN! Nasty Saddam is protected by his tribe, but Ossama is a foreign Saudi in Pakistan!
They're different from us! I would certainly not hand over my MOTHER for $25 million--but think of all the GOOD I could do with $25 million! Perhaps my brother-in-law.
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GIs complain that Iraqis have no respect for telling the literal truth about what actually happened. Their concern for family honor comes ahead of 'avoiding lies'.
There are some questions that can't be asked. If an American can't face that fact, his translator simply asks some other question.
And of course hardly any Americans, amateur or expert, can understand Arabic; while Russian diplomats (of course!) speak fluent Arabic, American diplomats talk through a translator. Can one comprehend a government so stupid that it sets out to occupy a country without having anyone to speak their language? ! Even fewer Yanks can read Arabic. /NYT22OCT
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I don't understand those Iraqis; Bush for sure doesn't understand them.
We should not be meddling with people we can never understand.
BRING HOME OUR BEFUDDLED TROOPS NOW!
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Sabotage-explosions ripped the Northern oil-pipeline in 4 places. This was the worst sabotage ever. A source said, "I don't think the pipeline can function in the near future, because the sabotage will continue." /Reuters22OCT
All that blood for oil. And now we can't use the goddamned oil! (The oil is God-damned.)
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Turkish troops into Iraq? Not likely, said Turkish spokesmen--because of Iraqi opposition. / Reuters21OCT>
Bangladesh also said they would not be sending troops.
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Earlier it was said that South Korea would send 5000 troops to Iraq. Now we hear that Seoul is 'postponing' that decision. /FinTimes22OCT