From the BBC:

Iraqis have held a giant party in a Baghdad park as US troops approach their deadline for withdrawing from cities and towns to their bases.

Thousands flocked to the capital’s Zawra Park to be entertained by musicians and poets, as police patrol cars were festooned with flowers.

“Since 2003 [the year of the US-led invasion], I have never been to a party.”

Ahmed Ali, Baghdad reveller, 20

Look! Is this not the very party that Bush was expecting to see when he liberated Iraq? The party was supposed to happen right here…
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But no one came. Only now are people showing up.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

3 replies on “Nearing the End”

  3. Hopefully we will have strengthened Iraq enough so that it complete its primary assignment — going back to war with Iran.

    Then gas will be 25 cents again.

    Thanks to Democracy.

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