The Price of Freedom

The Story Behind The Picture:
This is exactly what I thought Iraq would look like before I came over here. These "mud huts" as they were called are exactly that. The only difference between now and 2000 years ago is that these huts have a sattleite dish and a Mercedes in the front yard. (Can you actually refer to a sandy desert as a yard?) Most of these huts were located outside of the cities and were populated by farmers. They were friendly almost all the time. Almost. Sometimes and old woman would come out shaking her fist at us for scaring her sheep, but I can understand that. Sometimes, villagers would just start running or fall to their knees or cower. This is undoubtedly due to their never seeing a helicopter before. And its not only a matter of conjecture that the long pointy thing under the nose of the aircraft is a cannon!