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The Bug Spray Fairy came to see me. When I got in the other day there were two cans of bug spray at my door conviently left for me to fight the Sand Fleas that infest my room. Now if he could just leave me one of these…

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Well, Ramadan rumbles on. One of our Interpreters…he’s such a geek…was cutting up about not being able to eat. He also informed me that he was not able to drink water or fight. Bare in mind he’s a geek, although a likable geek, you would just not imagine this guy fighting. I told him to tell that to the guy’s that had dropped mortars on us earlier that day. “Those are not Muslims…They come from Iran, Syria and Jordan. They just want to fight.”

I can’t blame any Iraqi’s for not wanting us here. If they invaded me, even to get rid of a tyrant, and face it we have a few, I’d defend my “National Pride”. But, mostly innocent people are killed here. They kill people for trying to better themselves. That’s what pisses me off the most about them. Anyone able to get out of Baghdad is doing so. The only ones immigrating to Iraq, other than Westerners to do work on the bases, are the Mujahadeen. At least they see themselves as Mujahadeen. Shooting 8 year old boy’s at Gas Stations is not a Holy ethic. Not that I place all blame on the Muj’. Every time I hear of us dropping a 500lbs bomb to kill a couple of guy’s I cringe.

A couple of things you don’t know from watching the news. And, it ain’t like this is classified information, it’s all on the web. The average age of Insurgent or Terrorist (take your pick) is 27 years old and less than 5% of them have previous experience in Jihad. Of course some want to restore the Caliphate and other’s the Ba’ath Party. Those statistics are for those wanting the Caliphate, they provided them.

Christian Iraqi’s do exsist, and they are most likely leaving if possible. I’ve met one or two Christian Iraqi’s. The neighborhood across the river from the IZ is one of the biggest Christian communities in Iraq. For a very long time Christians were able to live here.

Now, those of us fortunate enough to be from North America, know Crows and Ravens to be all black. In Iraq they are black and white. I saw them while I was in the IZ, and recently here on Taji. They have black heads (and something just flew in front of my face) with black tail ends, white in the middle…Lika an Orio. They act like Crows, but, I don’t know if they are as intelligent. There are great numbers of Pigeons.

Insects are aggressive here. Fly’s buzz your face no matter how much you swat them. You feel like the beast on National Georaphic with the birds sitting on them.

Mail doesn't come every day. Sometimes every other day. One of the guy's will not be in, it's his day off or he's on nights, so, we'll call them and tell them they have mail. So, you tell them they got a letter that reeks of perfume from a guy named Steve. One of the guy's is going on his four day pass to Qatar. I told him his wife mailed his bikini to him today. We cut up in little way's. Everyone laughs, they ussually play along with the joke.

No Joking...It's time for bed

The Appalachianist