So, how are you celebrating the Iraqi handover?

tcmahoney · Jun 28, 2004

Apparently, it's already gone down a few days early to thwart guerilla attacks:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040628/wl_nm/iraq_dc&cid=574&ncid=1480

So how is this going to change things? Or will it even change anything?

"Right Wing Wacko" · Jun 28, 2004

I'm gonna make a pyramid out of naked baathists in my basement.

BadReligion · Jun 28, 2004

I'm going to hook someone's testicles up to the battery of a jeep, with the "transfer" of voltage symbolizing the transfer of power in Iraq.

But seriously, I'll probably just go to Home Depot and check out the nail guns...

Sneever Flion · Jun 28, 2004

I'll take a combo platter #3 and #5. My wife will be a weapon of mass destruction if I don't finish that damn basement.

Richie · Jun 28, 2004

Barbecue pool party

obie · Jun 28, 2004

Bremer: "Here you are, sir, the big blue book."
Allawi: "What the hell is this?"
Bremer: "Time to cut and run -- er, I mean, time for Iraqis to be sovereign!"
Allawi: "But what does that mean?
Bremer: "It means 'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED' for me. Iraq is free!"
Allawi: "Well then, what's in the big blue book? A coordinated plan to end the sectarian violence, unite our warring tribes, keep the Kurds from establishing their own 'sovereign' Kurdistan without massive bloodshed, and a commitment to restoring our destroyed infrastructure?"
Bremer: "I dunno, ask Wolfowitz. Not my phone number, that's for sure. See ya!"

So what is sovereignty, anyway?"

The new Iraqi government, consisting of many wealthy exiles who spent years away from Iraq, is barred from making long-term policy decisions and will not control the 160,000 foreign troops remaining in the country. The government has the right to ask them to leave — but has made clear it has no intention of doing so. The government also cannot reverse any of the laws passed by American administrators during the occupation.
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irishFS1921 · Jun 28, 2004

L. Paul Bremer, damn you, damn you sneaky man! he ruined my plans to be in iraq during the handover.

Malaga CF fan · Jun 28, 2004

I'm rolling my eyes, but I sure would like a monkey butler...

Richie · Jun 28, 2004

irishFS1921 said:

L. Paul Bremer, damn you, damn you sneaky man! he ruined my plans to be in iraq during the handover.
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That's funny I wish I have thought of that. bravo

nicephoras · Jun 28, 2004

I predict this transfer of power will remain as stable as the last time a victorious country just declared to the populace they were free. Titus Quinctius Flamininus is laughing from his grave.

Who?