Posted on 03/16/2006 1:32:01 AM PST by 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.
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Wait a minute! If you're gonna do Shakespeare, just bring back the troll!!!
:-p
Yeah -- I saw that early sign on date and that threw me for a while! LOL
Sifting thru long-unused frnames was a moveon & m. moore tactic there for a while.
LOL
Aw come on!
LOL
Ms.B
I have to agree with your "foreign, propbably islamic" take on the troll. I like to watch them implode when they've been found out.
If you can make them lose their cool, even once, even a little, they will revert to type and say something that is a dead giveaway as to their background, and from then on, it's downhill for them.
And they almost ALWAYS want to know "what gave them away."
They tend to come out of the woodwork right before something 'happens'.
I say it's a German troll. They're the only ones who say "kindly" like that.
I think the autopsy is more fun than the actual zot.
Alas, poor Lejes. I knew him, Horatio.
A troll of infinite jest and excellent target practice.
He hath
bored me with his backside a thousand times;
and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it.
Here hung those lips that have BS'ed I know
not how oft.
Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of ignorance,
that were wont to set the thread on a roar?
Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
Now get you to the RKBA, and tell them, let
them pave me an inch thick, make her laugh at that.
Then I guess I'm German. :-) I use that wording all the time. I do like the Deutsch bier!
That's one I hadn't thought of, but I believe you're right.
Sounds like this one was a "sleeper" trying to get as much info from the 'net as possible. Like it's going to help Al Qaida...
seared... seared into my memory
that was one scary snake I would NOT want to see in my perimeter-wire
2B or not 2B? Thine apartment awaits!
Sorry, no offense intended. But the euros seem to think it is a synonym for "please", whereas here it has a much more nuanced meaning... more imperative and, dare I say it, in your face. Of course, I'm sure you use it properly.
Are you a Markin? I noticed you kept calling it 'mate' and I thought you might be a brit.
and so evil has been banished from the Freepdom!
Well done!
Carry on!
LOL
ya nut!
Ms.B
I like how their bill of rights reads:
1. The right to bear arms
2. The right to bear arms
3. The right to bear arms
and so on..
LOL!
Good one! Thanks! Looks just like him, I bet!
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