Iraqis Arming Selves For Independence

[erik_kosberg]

Yeah, I know, it’s from The Onion, but the line between reality and satire is getting pretty blurry.

With little more than two months remaining until the American-led occupation force hands sovereignty to an interim government, Iraqi citizens are joyfully arming themselves in anticipation of independence.

"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."

[wivabef]

erik_kosberg said

Yeah, I know, it’s from The Onion, but the line between reality and satire is getting pretty blurry.

I know what you mean.

That's kind of like when America's Funniest Home video shows people running into things as if its supposed to be funny...and it really isn't. You kind of feel uncomfortable because the TV audience is laughing and you're not.