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Riverbend, the Iraqi blogger, brings us this rather startling item. While watching TV with a news crawl across the bottom of the screen, she was astounded to see this:

“The Ministry of Defense requests that civilians do not comply with the orders of the army or police on nightly patrols unless they are accompanied by coalition forces working in that area.”

Ummmmm....oooookay. Yeah. Everything's going just fine over there. No need to worry.

Sometimes, I hate my government for the things it does in my name.