an Iraqi success storyWelcome to the town of Kut, Iraq, also known as the "White Flower." A sleepy little town where the "latest fad food in the street market is the brown Meal-Ready-to-Eat (MRE) pack of U.S. rations that hawkers traded for cans of Pepsi" and which is enjoying "new-found prosperity as a trade hub." This town is so removed from the feyadeen Saddam that "only explosions... are from the fishermen throwing grenades to stun the fish behind the city dam" Yup. It's a nice town worth a look, full of folks with a sense of humor. While commenting on the equipment of the Ukraine brigade that has taken control of the area from the United States, Ali Mohammed says them troops in their lime-colored, Soviet-made armored vehicles never come into town because "the only time I used to see them, they'd broken down." |
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