Baghdad internation closed due to security/money dispute :


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/international/middleeast/10iraq.html

Apparently Mercenaries are protecting the Baghdad international airport.

Apparently they havn't been paid for 6 months.
They shut down the airport.
The Iraqis decided to send over there guys to run security.
American military decided to put a stop to that horse shit.
Ariving Iraqi security detachment turned away at the first checkpoint.


The impoverished Iraqi government ponied up 1/2 of what someone else signed
a contract for.


Combined with :
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002349.html

Mercenaries on the ground in NOLA with fully automatic assault rifles,
some foreign nationals, while citizens of NOLA, with perfectly legal firearms
are getting the arms confiscated and them kicked out of the city.

An american city.


Results in :

It's seriously a race to see which ends up being worse sooner.

It might be a good time to start working on a new government, this one isn't really
ours anymore, probably never was.