My Favorite Iraqi

Remember the statue of Saddam that the Marines pulled down after the fall of Baghdad? It's been replaced with a modernist sculpture designed by Iraqi artists that is supposed to represent freedom.

However, many Iraqis feel the sculpture is mocking them because the situation in Iraqi is so bad. This is where my favorite Iraqi comes in. His name Is Mohammed Ahmed, and he made this comment about the freedom sculpture:

"I was talking about it today to some friends telling them that I wish a mortar round would hit and free us from it..."

This man must be awesome. To be able to make an ironic joke in the midst of a horrible situation is the definition of resilience. I think we need to focus more on funny arabs and less on flag-buring, decapitating ones. You can read the full article here.

It gave me a chuckle.