[river rat]

I can't help but comment, this Mayor is but one of HUNDREDS in Iraq -- and doesn't appear to have many of his fellow Mayors willing to join him in his public show of appreciation to the "infidel invaders" in his land....

I wouldn't be a bit surprised to hear later - that this brave Mayor has been targeted by the lunatics for assassination.

Forgive my cynicism, but he's bad news for them.
He needs to be "removed"..

We should pray for him and his family --- and perhaps even remove him from Iraq and bring him here.... I suspect he'd be a far better citizen that at least 50% of the folks here.

Semper Fi

[freema]

I hadn't thought about that.........

[Allegra]

I wouldn't be a bit surprised to hear later - that this brave Mayor has been targeted by the lunatics for assassination.

He gave a "thank you" speech in Tal Afar to our troops around February, too. And did OK after that.

But you're right...it's still dangerous to do something like that so publicly here. There are a lot of loonies running loose out there.

Americans do get thanked personally by Iraqis regularly, but you probably never hear about that kind of thing in the news. And they do it in a personal, private manner. They still run risks if the bad guys find out they're working with us infidels.