Good news from Iraq, at last!

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BAGHDAD - After a series of trivial non-events, many people in Baghdad and across Iraq are still alive. Many, many more have not been injured, and obstetricians report that more are expected to be alive by the end of the evening.

In Mosul, a routine walk to a standpipe to try to get some non-polluted water ended in mundanity for one mother when she returned with almost two pints. Seven people were not killed. A Samarra man drove to visit friends, his trip ending in mild pleasantness. And exchange of tea and banal observations about family and the petrol shortage was heard long into the night.

More serious banality erupted in Najaf, where supper for one household was delayed by US checkpoints, resulting in six cases of temporary hunger.

Almost three dozen buildings in Baghdad are not on fire or harbouring insurgents. This was followed by later reports that seven buildings in Fallujah were not razed during a US operation.

Over to our reporter on the spot. Tom:

"Thanks Brian. There's a tangible mood of tedium in Baghdad tonight as several families look back fleetingly on an uneventful day. What we know is that a small hard-core minority of Iraqis - some possibly foreign - have carried on the routines of normal life throughout the day, resulting in a sporadic scattering of non-lethal events. There's a deadly undertone of silence pervading the comforting howl of sirens, screech of jets, crackle of gunfire and low-flying helicopters in Baghdad tonight. How long it may last, only time will tell. Back to the studio."

Thanks Tom. Moving on to domestic news, a school in Illinois was successfully repainted today ...

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See? Much more cheerful.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. What about all those schools that have been repainted by the US army?

Why is the US army repainting schools in Iraq anyway? Just try to get them to do that in the USA.

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2. That's sort of my point. n/t

[LynnTheDem]

3. But what about the weather in Iraq? Damn librul media says it's COLD.

Biased bastards.

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4. That's a liberal lie, Lynn.

It's actually a comfortable 20 deg C, and has been since the invasion.

[LynnTheDem]

7. I knew it! Lying librul media!!!

They'll say ANYTHING to make bush look bad!

[uppityperson]

5. Don't forget those soccer balls either!

Some children were able to play with their balls without being shot as potential insugents.

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6. Yes, several children have enjoyed an uneventful kickaround.

Good work for reminding me, patriot! :patriot:

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8. A small kick n/t