Hey, how about that Iraq anyway?!!

Yep, things just seem to be getting better and better. Thank you, our governing "servants", for lying to us and saying there were all these WMD's, and saying the US wasn't going to try any "nation building". Here we go again- Vietnam, etc., revisited with a vengance!

[quote][b]A day in the life of a security guard in Iraq

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'Outside the gate, it's the wild west. We are basically a taxi service with guns'


Four of the five British hostages kidnapped in Iraq worked for a private security firm. A former special forces soldier who returned from Baghdad earlier this week tells Audrey Gillan about his life as a 'private security detail' operating in one of the most dangerous cities in the world. He is 42 and lives in Surrey. He has asked to remain anonymous

Thursday May 31, 2007
The Guardian


The day starts at different times when you work as private security detail (PSD) in Iraq, depending on what the operation is. Certainly, if we have to go out of the GZ [Green Zone] then we can't leave before a certain time in the morning because there are curfews. We don't tend to travel at night and we always wait for first light.
We will have our breakfast - our new chef does good pancakes with scrambled eggs and I'll have some bacon and sausage if I can get it - and I'll listen to a bit of BBC Radio 7, some Steptoe and Son or another comedy maybe. We live in a five-bedroom villa in Baghdad, it's rented from a former Ba'ath party member and costs about $15,000 (

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