Five months after it opened, the Burger King at Baghdad International Airport is now in the top ten most popular BK franchises on the planet (close behind the Merthyr drive-thru, presumably). The restaurant spews out 5,000 "patties" a day, whatever a "pattie" is.
BIA is home to around 6,000 troops, so there's a ready-made (non-Iraqi) clientele. But soldiers who don't live in the compound aren't so fortunate. "We're lucky if we can get over here once a month, we're so busy raiding houses and kicking down doors in the middle of the night," said one.
Meanwhile, Thai farmers have trapped the mojo of George W. Bush, put it in a clay pot and dumped it into a river. The farmers were protesting about plans for a free-trade agreement between Bangkok and Washington. The idea is that a mojo on the bottom of a river bed can't do anybody any harm.
You've got to hand it to those Thai farmers. Over here we'd just have a march from Battersea Park to Whitehall and then go to the pub.
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