[Grizzled Bear]

Iraq is a hostile country, it’s full of people who’d love to see western heads on a pike, or westerners hanging from the end of a rope.

It wasn't that long ago that an Irish woman working for the International Red Cross was kidnapped, tortured and dismembered.

It's still a war zone.

[americanophile]

Well, unless said woman was strung up by the government of Iraq, who did so because she was an American, it misses my point.