Fruit no substitute for Iraqi security - (wants Saddam Hussein back).

[papau]

Hebah wants Saddam Hussein back. "We're worse off now," she told me, sitting in her shabby head teacher's office. "Before we had no crime, no holy war, no bombing. I could walk home at one o'clock in the morning and feel safe. Now I'm not safe at all."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3244324.stm

Fruit no substitute for Iraqi security

By Jill McGivering
BBC World Affairs correspondent in Baghdad

Baghdad's shops are full again after years of sanctions and American money is gradually restoring Iraq's infrastructure. But few Iraqis appear to have a good word to say for Uncle Sam.

Hebah ...a dynamic forty-something in traditional voluminous dress and headscarf ...wants Saddam Hussein back.

"We're worse off now," she told me, sitting in her shabby head teacher's office. "Before we had no crime, no holy war, no bombing. I could walk home at one o'clock in the morning and feel safe. Now I'm not safe at all."

I say many westerners would be surprised she wants the former Iraqi president back: they see him as a dictator who carried out atrocities. She snorts with indignation. "As long as you kept out of politics things were OK," she said. <snip>

[BenZodiac]

1. LOL

"As long as you kept out of politics things were OK"

Sorry, but as someone who prefers politics over fresh fruit, I'd never have made it...

[papau]

2. So - I am at a loss for words! LOL

:-)