Anyone Remember Basra?

Here’s a classic little story that just never gets old:

“Two persons wearing Arab uniforms opened fire at a police station in Basra. A police patrol followed the attackers and captured them to discover they were two British soldiers. Their car was full of explosives and they were taken into custody.”

Curious stuff, eh?

Let’s state right at the beginning that we’re not—as in, we are not—making the claim that all the carbombs in Baghdad are coming from white guys in turbans.  That’s idiotic.  It also misses the entire point of having special forces in the first place, but that’s beyond the scope of this article.  What matters is that this happened.

This is an important story that nobody should forget --- you know why?  Because even though Americans have forgotten all about this, nobody in Iraq has forgotten for a f***ing second.

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