Iraqi Delegation Robbed at Gunpoint in Memphis

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http://www.abc24.com/news/tristate/story.aspx?content_id=B9C6CA60-2464-470E-8C41-B080CC342027


Welcome to the Good Ole USA! First we'll show you blatant racism by barring you from City Hall, then we'll teach you some things about the way the economy works....

[rocktivity]

1. and in a related story

3 Banks Robbed During Bush, Kerry Visits

:headbang:
rocknation

[saigon68]

21. THESE ROBBERS ARE RECRIUTED FOR TROOP DUTY

Who better to use their experience in robbing and pillaging. Not to mention CAPPING an occasional VICTIM.


NO REMORSE

</SARCASM>

[A_Possum]

2. You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried

Jeez. I'm a novelist, and I'd never be able to get this plot past an editor!

Plus, wasn't it in TN that they just suspended some guy who arranged at "terror drill" by bursting in on a city council meeting with guns and black masks or something?

Ok, Tennessee, let's pull it together, you're going off the deep end. ;)

(Said with affection for all the rational people in the state!)

[grasswire]

9. welcome to DU!

Nice to have a novelist in the crowd. Hope you enjoy the fray here!

[Kadie]

12. Yep

Here is the thread I started earlier on the "terror drill"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=728770&mesg_id=728770

This Delegation is sure having a great experience here. I wish them well, and I hope things get better for them.

[Gman]

3. Having gotten lost once driving through Memphis

I can understand this!

[Rose Siding]

4. I hope we haven't blown up their homes during this visit.

Surreal

[mitchtv]

5. "City of good abode"

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. F'n dumb scumbags

[teryang]

6. Iraqi nation robbed at gunpoint in Iraq!

...by Chimp, Cheney & the East India Company.

[Ducks In A Row]

7. they would probably looking for hookers

[NYC]

8. I guess they learned.

Excerpt from article:

"The group was here to learn about democracy, freedom and civil rights in America."

[countmyvote4real]

14. Sad, but true.

But it's not like they'll be having any "buyer's remorse." More likely, it will be fond memories of the security under Sadam.

[Dhalgren]

10. Welcome to America, boys!

And one day, if you play your cards right, you will be just like us! Yeah....

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. Beal St. area is no place to be hanging around

unless you are nuts.

[Jacobin]

13. These poor fuckers can't catch a break

We utterly destroy their country, contaminate it with depleted uranium, torture their citizens, blow up all civil order, they come to the U.S. and we fucking rob them.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

18. Other than that we're really nice folks

[pifflePill]

25. We?

Don't include me or anyone I know with the gutter trash that actually robbed them. There is no excuse to rob anyone.

[ugarte]

15. Consider it Iraqi foreign aid

Some parts of Memphis need it more than you.

[daleo]

16. They were barred from Memphis city hall, then robbed at gunpoint

They must wonder if they ever really left Baghdad.

[Kinkistyle]

17. omygod what a freaking embarrassment Tennessee is.

I mean really... :wtf:

[Blind Tiresias]

19. back off my town

I am new to this board and go to med school in Memphis, and I can tell you that this is not a suprise. I am doing my surgery rotation now and see all sorts of folks come in w/ gunshot/stab wounds. Sucks for those Iraqis, but this happens every night here. I guarantee their money went towards the bustling Memphis crack-cocaine industry.

[newyawker99]

23. Hi IronLionZion2004!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Stockholm]

20. Iraqi Delegation Robbed at Gunpoint in Memphis

When asked can´t wait to get back to the safety of Najaf and Baghdad.

[Citizen Daryl]

22. Hopefully they remember what Rumsfeld said:

"Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things."

Now you can be just like us!

[geek tragedy]

24. They're liberators, not armed robbers! eom

[Barkley]

26. They should have watch "Bowling for Columbine" before coming to the US nt.