One of my regular readers, whom I fondly refer to as Dr. Who, noticed an odd quote in an MSNBC story about Iraqis’ reaction to Saddam Hussein’s arrest.
The story played it pretty straight, quoting some Iraqis who were thrilled by the news and others who were disappointed. But at the end, there was this:
At the Palestine hotel, where foreign journalists and American contract workers are staying, Abil Daoud was sad. “We lost our only hope and now we are stuck with the Americans,” said Daoud, who is employed by U.S. troops as a local security guard.
Come again? I don’t know anything about Abil Daoud, so far be it for me to condemn him to unemployment on the basis of one quote, but why has the U.S. military hired — as a security guard — someone who considered Saddam Hussein the Iraqis’ “only hope”?
Just wondering.