Thursday, April 22, 2004
Iraqis Arming Selves
A case of Art imitating life here from the Onion. "Arming selves for Independence" sounds like something the Pentagon would come up with. Sort of like "In order to save the village, we had to destroy the village".
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"Saddam is overthrown! Praise Allah! Iraq is ours once more!" Baghdad native Alaa al-Khawaja said, as he busily shoved boxes of 7.62mm ammunition beneath the bed in his two-room home on the outskirts of Baghdad. "Now is the time for all citizens to prepare for our nation's glorious future—a future certain to contain wave after bloody wave of sectarian violence."
