Two bits about the Iraq war that caught my eye.

One from ScrappleFace:
"Looting Suddenly Stops in Baghdad
(2003-04-09) -- The looting in Baghdad stopped suddenly today as Iraq's largest organized crime family disappeared from the city.
Thousands of Baghdad residents entered government buildings in an attempt to retrieve some small portion of what had been stolen from them for the past 24 years.
"I got a big vase from one of Uday's offices," said one local woman. "It can never replace the family members Saddam took from me, but all of this stuff belongs to the people and it was taken from us without our permission.""

The other from The Sydney Morning Herald:
""They stand, they fight, sometimes they run when we engage them," Brigadier-General John Kelly said.
"But often they run into our machine guns and we shoot them down like the morons they are."
"They appear willing to die. We are trying our best to help them out in that endeavour," he said."