Yay Iraq

But of all these friends and lovers,
There is no one compares with you.
And these memories lose their meaning,
When I think of love as something new ..

Man, its been a while since I was on here.

I'm gonna kick off todays post with more happy news from Iraq. If you haven't heard, 52 have been killed after Iraqi security forces stormed a Catholic church in Baghdad where gunmen were holding people hostage. A statement on a militant website reported that the Iraqi Christians in the church would be "exterminated".

This quote, in the aftermath, comes from the Iraqi Security Chief (possibly the crappest job in the world), Abdul-Qadr al-Obeidi.

"We took a decision to launch a land offensive .."

It was hardly gonna be a beach assault was it?

".. and in addition an airdrop .."

An airdrop of what? Cluster bombs? IDIOT.

"because it was impossible to wait - the terrorists were planning to kill a large number of our brothers, the Christians who were at Mass."

So Christians are considered "brothers" now. Thats a new one.

He continues:

"So the operation was successfully done."

YOU KILLED 52 PEOPLE! Granted, you're in Iraq where you're more likely to die than anything else, but there must be a higher threshold of success than "52 dead"?! You are STUPID sir.

" .. All terrorists were killed."

SO WAS EVERYBODY GODDAMN ELSE!

".. And we now have other suspects in detention."

YES, THE ONES YOU DIDN'T MANAGE TO KILL AT THE TIME, PRESUMABLY!

But then, in his defence:

"Witnesses say they saw US troops on the ground and US military helicopters hovering above the scene, but the extent of their involvement is not yet clear."

Given their record, it was probably them. Especially after the 'rescue' of that aid worker Linda Norgrove last month. The one they rescued with a hand grenade.

Anyway, according to my stats I have readers in Iraq. I wonder what their take is.