Thursday, May 20, 2004
     
     
 		    
          Quote of the day:  This one comes from a New York Times story (I read it in a local paper -- the Orange County Register --, I don't know where it is on the Times' website) about a recent U.S. military program to buy back weapons floating around Iraq (ahem, thanks to a certain military _not_ stopping looting).  The military is offering better-than-black-market prices for the weapons.  Needless to say, we see true capitalism at work:
 
 
 'Some Iraqi men said that with the money they had made they could buy some more weapons from the black market.'
 
 '"We sell them [the U.S. military] the old ones and buy new ones on the black market" said Ali Mohsin.  "I sold one AK-47 that I did not need, but what I am really good at is firing a rocket-propelled grenade launcher."'
 
 
 I leave any further comment as an exercise to the reader.
  
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