The Command Post
Iraq
April 01, 2003
A Microcosm of Iraq

From the Sydney Morning Herald

A fat man, bearing a striking resemblance to Saddam Hussein, began shouting at journalists and their Royal Australian Navy clearance diver escorts.
"You came here and destroyed us," he shouted in Arabic. "We had water but you destroyed it. Saddam was better. At least we had something then. Where is the water for my children?"
Another man joined in the outburst of apparent frustration.
"Water. Water. We have no water for the hospital or the market. America has bought us nothing for our children. We have no electricity," he yelled.
Another man, speaking in broken English, said: "We need water and food very bad. The hospital cannot [do] surgery. The women cannot have baby."
Edging reporters away from the Saddam lookalike, he said: "But that man is bad; he is for Saddam.
"Shoot him, shoot him; he is for Saddam,
" he whispered to a clearance diver armed with an M-4 carbine.
A fourth man started shouting at the still screaming Saddam lookalike, then tried to hit him, accusing him of belonging to Saddam's Ba'ath party.
Held back by the crowd, he ran into a nearby house and returned with a huge machete. Saddam's lookalike beat a hasty retreat.

Posted By Alan E Brain at April 1, 2003 07:13 AM | TrackBack
Comments

An Evil Bugger would say "First restore the food and water : then let Nature take its course."
But we must do the first, first. That's what (from all accounts) we're doing.

Posted by: Alan E Brain at April 1, 2003 07:15 AM

Incident by incident, Iraqi civilians are pointing out their oppressors.

Posted by: JohninLondon at April 1, 2003 07:47 AM

This is obvious -- with the high level of low food supplies for the past years, I would presume that a great majority of fat people are those that have exploited the system, and therefore was part of the regime we're changing.

So... Shoot the fat men.

Posted by: Teej at April 1, 2003 08:00 AM

Several networks showed the video of this (fat man) scene as proof that we are not so welcome after all. None (until this Australian account) suggested there was more to the story.

Posted by: yank at April 1, 2003 08:26 AM

Can't be fun, being a civilian in Iraq right now, but it's going to get worse for some of them, once the (allied) shooting stops.

Civil conflicts are the nastiest. . . .

Posted by: Whackadoodle at April 1, 2003 08:57 AM

Since he was fat, I suggest he was one of Sadam's privledged elite used to preferencial treatment. His world is over.

Posted by: BobbyV at April 1, 2003 11:17 AM

We know this is going to happen. I don't think Europe is really paying attention, tho.

I wonder if they'll be Mussolini'd or some other way?

Posted by: Sandy P. at April 1, 2003 11:29 AM

Maybe he was just big boned.

Posted by: Der Blaue Engel at April 1, 2003 11:29 AM
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