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Su July 17 -

ON THE IRAQI BLOGS -

# Omar from ITM recently
took a trip to Kurdish Sulaymania.

# I see that lately Salam Pax is becoming
a kind of Baghdadi version of Wonkette :-)

# Excerpt from Michael Yon's:

They recounted that many Iraqi soldiers and police officers are apparently losing much of their salaries to corrupt superiors who skim the payroll, leaving the soldiers and police to steal from civilians. This can be attributed to culture and custom and it's bound to disturb many people in the west. But the Special Forces soldiers take it in stride. I've learned to gauge the relative corruption of places by the cleanliness of their drinking and bathing water. The water is not clean here. The water is scarce yet free, and since it's free, people waste it... Iraq's future will soon be in their own hands. Iraqis can then display for the world if Iraqis are truly smart, and truly civilized, or just thugs with oil, and money to buy giant weapons...

:: Walking the Line V ::
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