Ordinary Iraqi families getting ready to fight They're stockpiling weapons, food and fuel

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 | Charles Levinson

[hawkiye]

Baghdad -- Om Hussein, wrapped in her black abaya, lists the contents of the family's walk-in storage closet: three 175-pound cases of rice, two 33-pound cases of cooking fat, six cases of canned tomatoes, three crates of assorted legumes, a one-month supply of drinking water, frozen chicken livers in the freezer. And in the garage, jerry cans filled with fuel are piled floor to ceiling.

Om Hussein, who was reluctant to give her full name, and her Shiite family are preparing for war. They've stocked up on food. They bought a Kalashnikov rifle and a second car -- so that there is space for all 13 members of their extended family should they need to flee in a hurry.

"We are afraid of what will happen in the coming days," she says. "Maybe there will be a monthlong curfew, or maybe fighting in the streets will force my family to stay in the house for days at a time."

In the past week, President Bush has tried to assure Americans that Iraq has stepped back from the brink of civil war. "Iraqis have shown the world they want a future of freedom and peace," he told the Foundation for Defense of Democracies on Monday.

Few Iraqis, however, share Bush's view that the crisis has been averted. They are readying themselves for the worst, fleeing likely flash points, stockpiling weapons and basic foodstuffs, barricading their neighborhoods, and drawing lines in the sand delineating Sunni and Shiite territory.

[Coop]

So you're admitting you falsely accused me, mate?

Apology accepted.

[StarCMC]

He he he!! Sorry about that!! It is not good to mess with the King! I should have been more specific to begin with! LOL

[Flavius Josephus]

Isn't San Fransicko the home of the Hearst empire?

[He'sComingBack!]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Credibility: Nill

[Monkey Face]

Ohboy! I like to see the ignornant become initiated by the informed. Flames are so pretty...got asbestos?

[Flavius Josephus]

Either there will be a civil war or there will not be a civil war.

From 24 the other night:

Chloe: I don't know.

Other person: Such and such is happening, that could be good, right?

Chloe: It could be good, and it could be bad. That's what 'I don't know' means.

[StarCMC]

LOL!!

[Monkey Face]

I dearly hope you'll let me quote your smug little prognostications of a perfect Iraqi future in a few months when the whole place goes to hell.

Were you weaned on a pickle? Or is your gloom and doom outlook hereditary?

[Old Sarge]

Okay, it's been a half-hour and you have yet to respond to a simple request. Instead, you continue invective and attempts to start a flame war.

Your posting history on other threads (of which you are simlutaneously disrupting three on this forum right now), is simply invective and strawman arguements, salted heavily with a hate of President Bush and my country's foreign policy in general.

Your writing style and idioms suggest you to be European.

As I said before, I am here in Ramadi. And I'm willing to reply to any question you ask. Tough I doubt I'll have the opportunity.

[StarCMC]

It's dead!!

banned or suspended

Got yer ZOTS??

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Hiya Coop!
Ms.B

[Issaquahking]

TROLLS - See one? It's less than a hundred yard shot? Hear this music? Get a moderator and take the shot! Reading "This account has been banned or suspended" or "Nobody by that name." It really makes my day, when I sink a P.O.S.!!! Nothing better than fixxing an itchy trigger finger when you know....


I'm tired of lurking...Take the shot, so I can enjoy some troll meat...LR will be served!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

'Tis happy I am to see thee!
How dost thou fare?
Ms.B

[Coop]

Howdy, Ms. B!

It seems our little friend across the pond suddenly does have some extra time on his/her hands. I must be syekick!

[Old Sarge]

Ursula stands on the still-smoking carcass of the enemy…

[Monkey Face]

Ahwelll...back to the Castle...

[txhurl]

'Bout time. My take is foreign, probably islamic: what with the 'went to university' and the name was probably an non-passworded one that he hijacked; the frname signed up 2 weeks before 9/11.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

So it would seem!
LOL
Ms.B

[Old Sarge]

Oh, you remember that? Heh heh...

[StarCMC]

LOL!!!!!