[McGavin999]

This is wonderful! After living for 30 years with bribery and corruption, these people are discovering the uplifting you get from honor. What a wonderful thing. It goes to prove that the Iraqi people have integrity, and they deserve the freedom they are getting.

I hope we make a BIG deal out of this.

[BenLurkin]

Better not tell these guys:---

[Uncle Miltie]

Good News Bump!

[GreyFriar]

Now michael moore can write a new movie about how we are either planting gold to make it look like saddam was keeping it for himself, or that we took it to build a new Elvis Presley Memorial Bowling Alley for the troops in Baghdad.

I was at the real one in Friedberg, Germany. Nothing fancy about it, but up to spec for the 1970s. BTW, Ray Barracks, where Elvis was assigned, is scheduled to be closed and returned to the German Government by 2006.

[WhiteGuy]

We're blowing a $ Billion a day over there.

Send the gold to US.

[PoisedWoman]

pictures of the bars show gleaming yellow bricks.

You don't suppose it's the elusive yellowcake?

[kayak]

"It just shows you the character and integrity of the people will come up and surprise you," said Maj. Martin Casado, the operations officer for the 1st Battalion, 4th Regiment of the Marines, 1st Division, which is headquartered here.

"They will definitely surprise you and make you feel like you are here for a reason, and it's a good reason."

And we will see this on the evening news when? Good things are happening over there every day but the media choose to focus on the negative. GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

[F.J. Mitchell]

BTTT!

[Akira]

Good story, thanks for posting. I love the quote "Big, big surprise, you love me now. We have metal, much metal"! Any little bit helps in financing this thing and it's refreshing to hear a guy making that little turn down a bribe for that much.

[TheSpottedOwl]

If all of it is actually gold, imagine what can be done for that country! Imagine how pissed off Saddam is!!!

[cyncooper]

Ping

For integrity, honor, and just plain doing the right thing.

[FairOpinion]

I hope it does turn out to be gold.

As the author points out, the fact that the Iraqi policeman didn't let Saddam's men to bribe him is a real change in the whole Iraqi culture.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I hope somebody thinks to check INSIDE the "gold" bars, especially since they are apparently not really made of gold. That could be a mighty effective way of hiding little vials of bio or chemical weapons materials. Just imagine, a pile of "gold" bars in a bank vault wouldn't look a bit suspicious (not that the weapons inspectors would have bothered to look in a bank vault in the first place).

[Delta 21]

The man answered, "No, we got the Iraqi people's gold."

I hope the Iraqui people never, EVER forget that!

[blam]

Orichalcum

[Bernard Marx]

Wow!! I want to buy one of those trucks!!

A cubic foot of gold (pure) weighs about 1,400 pounds. So a truck loaded with a 3 x 20 x 6-foot stack of gold bars would have 360 cubic feet of metal, or 504,000 pounds (252 tons) if my head and calculator are working tonight.

Excuse my skepticism. I'm no truck expert but I don't think that's possible. Even it it's 14 karat gold (about 58% pure) it would still weigh 146 tons. That truck must have AWESOME brakes!