To commemorate Bush's trip to England, the Guardian published a set of letters to Bush about Iraq. Salam Pax (the famous "Baghdad blogger") contributed a particularly snarky piece in which he compained about the "service" and diminished Sadam's terror:
Listen, habibi, it is not over yet. Let me explain this in simple terms. You have spilled a glass full of tomato juice on an already dirty carpet and now you have to clean up the whole room. Not all of the mess is your fault but you volunteered to clean it up. I bet if someone had explained it to you like that you would have been less hasty going on our Rambo-in-Baghdad trip.James Lileks just tears Salam a new asshole over this.
To tell you the truth, I am glad that someone is doing the cleaning up, and thank you for getting rid of that scary guy with the hideous moustache that we had for president. But I have to say that the advertisements you were dropping from your B52s before the bombs fell promised a much more efficient and speedy service.
Let me explain this in simple terms, habibi. You would have spent the rest of your life under Ba’athist rule. You might have gotten some nice architectural commissions to do a house for someone whose aroma was temporarily acceptable to the Tikriti mob....Lileks also disses Nightline for cancelling coverage of Bush's major policy speech on Iraq, and his trip to England, in favor of yet more mindless yap-yap about the Plastic Pedophile™. Go read the whole thing. Idiotarian blood everywhere.
...The rug was soaked before we got there, friend. Cut the clever café pose; drop the sneer. That “Rambo” crap is old. Iraq needs grown-ups. Be one.
tell your friends in London that G in Baghdad would have appreciated them much more if they had demonstrated against the atrocities of saddam.But then there's this from his other friend Raed:
And if you could ask them when will be the next demonstration to support the people of north Korea, the democratic republic of Congo and Iran?
... salam you cannot imagine the scene at AnNasryya, i mean .. It's not just about the italians' building .. It's about the entire neighborhood! Houses in the circle of 1000 meter are living without windows, without doors, and with cracks in their walls. The explosion was so huge that it blow off the doors and fences and trees of all the neighbours .. do u like more details? ok :) two people crossed the bridge with that very old water tanker (made in 1950s), and the man "with beard" sitting on the left went out from the window and started shooting on the italian guards and killed them, and the car went directly into the main door of the building killing everyone in the street and most of the italians, italian soldiers heads were found hundreds of meters away from he explosion! brrrrooohhh .. and some iraqi's were burned in their cars in the middle of the street. The "funny" thing that looting started five minutes later, all the machine guns and pistols disappeared in minutes and you can get a cool italiano pistol for $250 now in the gun markets of Nasryya. Abbas (u know him, the restaurant owner..) saw some people steeling a ring from the finger of a dead italian body with no head! brrrrroooohhh .. and ,, that's it i believe. (how can i start a new paragraph here?) ok .. (conceder this as new paragraph) .. i want a shoe (like the black one with a hole in its bottom that u used to have) and another couple of horny stuff.. i broke up with S. and feeling depressed .. mmm .. i bought a new Mercedes car (ML 430) .. call me .. byeI've changed my mind. Let's leave now.