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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Friday, October 05, 2007

(A U.S. soldier walks past the U.S. embassy in the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, on September 3. Getty)

craziness.

old joke but i always thought for comic effect they should change the US constitution and instead of the right to 'bear arms' you could have the right to

1. bare arms
2. arm bears

By Anonymous, at 9:10 AM
"No shooting civilian bystanders before 10:00"

As a tangent thought: If mercenary contractors were taken into custody by Iraqi security forces (police or otherwise) could Iraq hold them as unlawful combatants?

By -epm, at 11:01 AM
I thought this might catch eyes.

Michael, it's one of those snapshots that captures the "wild west" of Iraq.

EPM, with about as much legal backing as our government has to do that.

Technically, under Bremer's CPA a law was passed exempting contractors under Iraqi law, but, in theory, the parliament could revoke that. (If they could pass anything, they could probably pass that.)

By mikevotes, at 11:50 AM