[ambrose]

re-read. he isn't accusing the Brits of stealing. He is saying that they should stop IRAQIs from stealing...

[expatpat]

They need to set up a police force quite promptly, or the socialists will be3 harping on this forever.

[the Deejay]

Either way, let the Iraqis have a bit o' fun, (for once in their lives.) It'll soon all come to a halt when the military police arrive to keep law and order, & without hanging the natives in the town square, cutting out tongues, genitals, arms, and the like.

[Minty]

I say contain and use diplomacy over and over again. :-)
never enforcing a thing.