Bad Adam...Bad Pops...

Hey Zooheads. Sorry for the no posts the last couple days. We suck. No other explanation (And of course by we I mean Pops as I'm without fault:) What's my excuse you say? Listen, I was attacked by a pro-life group of lesbians hell-bent on caramel frappachinos...I took the last parking spot in the Starbucks lot. Before I could even open the door I was overcome by the smell of patchoulli...disoriented I didn't see the Camilla Paglia signature baseball bat come whistling at my head. It's all a blur except for them branding the word,"Shemalehatervaginapowerclub" on my leg...anyway, the point is you're lucky I survived. Pops has no such excuse;)

Onto news...guess what's in the pic?

It's part of the amazing NEW US Embassy in Baghdad! It's not so much an embaassy singular as it's a huge complex sprawled out over 104 acres inside Baghdads 'Green Zone' (no stoners, there's no free pot...it just means security is really really tight there) Full article HERE. So it should really come as no surprise we're building an embassy there but does anyone think this embassy isn't going to become the #1 target for every lunatic islamo-fascist group on earth? Am I alone on this one?
Get this. The company building it? First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting...must be a subcontractor for an American company:)
Here's my NO Shit Quote of the Day from the International Crisis Group, a research group that generates regular reports on Iraq:

"The presence of a massive U.S. embassy - by far the largest in the world - co-located in the Green Zone with the Iraqi government is seen by Iraqis as an indication of who actually exercises power in their country"

That sound you hear? That's the militias...no wait Insurgents...no, ummm...Terrorists...no...Baathists...no...well that's the sound of someone licking their lips...

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Great article HERE from the Chicago Tribune on whether or not Iraq is currently experiencing a 'civil war' or just systematic random violence that happens to occur between two distinct populations:) Some highlights...

"We need to divide the country into three," Mohammed al-Jubouri said. "We cannot live with these people."

-Said after his brothers body was discovered with a bullet shot to the head and wounds on his inner thighs that appear to have been caused by a power drill.

"Training and equipping a force, while knowing that at least some element is infiltrated by militias, is a difficult situation," said Capt. Ryan Lawrence, an intelligence officer with the U.S. Army's 2nd Brigade Special Police Transition Team.

Okay, maybe that is my new No Shit Quote of the Day:)

"His assessment was that the militias are everywhere ... and his officers weren't going to do anything about that because their units are infiltrated and they know what the cost would be for working against the militias."

Told to Lt. Col. Chris Pease, deputy commander of the U.S. military's police training programs in eastern Baghdad by one of his trused recruits.

Another gem by Lt. Col Pease, "We're not stupid. We know for a fact that they're killing people. We dig the damn bodies out of the sewer all the time. But there's a difference between knowing something and proving something."

James Fearon, a Stanford University political scientist who specializes in the study of civil conflict. "The rate [of killings] is comparable to Sri Lanka, the Lebanese war and Bosnia

Well there you have it. So now what?

Umm...yeah.

Stay Positive and please...

Stay Naked.

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