Friday, June 01, 2007

Not getting enough news about Iraq? Try MyRaq.

Here's the answer to those suffering from a drought of war news. The Slogger link.

Buried down in one of the Arraf links therein is a clever new word: MyRaq. You know how Bush and a lot of Americans pronounce Iraq, like Eye-Rack. (It's more like ee-rock, but whatever.) I gather that it's a rhyme for MyRaq, which derives from an analysis in Ali Allawi's new book about his country, saying that Bush and the United States tried to impose "an imagined country" on the harsh realities of Iraq. That country, an official says, is called "MyRaq." Delicious.
The link.

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