[ROCKLOBSTER]

moslems

Exactly, and I don't believe in the Frenchie "islamic spelling" crap either.

The moslems hang out in mosks conspiring to commit gee-hawed.

It's Irack, or Erock if you wish. Not Al Qaida but rather alkida. Kadoffy, etc etc

Since the moslems don't use the English alphabet, there is no right or wrong way to spell their words. We need to spell it like it sounds.

After all, we're Merkins.

[Cronos]

Iraq is a strange one -- it's derived from the ancient city of Uruk which is close to Ur (you know the "Ur of the Chaldeans" that Abraham was from) -- the city dates from 3000 BC

Of course, English didn't come around until 4500 years later :)