More Looting Happiness

Oh man, this article cracks me up:

"I came here thinking I wouldn't need any Arabic at all -- just `Put your hands up' and `Put your weapons down,'" Marine Sgt. Steven Christopher said. "They've been teaching me how to talk to the thieves. Things like, `You are lying, I'm not stupid,' and `If you steal, we will kill you.'"

U.S. soldiers, meanwhile, went through Oday Hussein's palace in Baghdad to see what Saddam's son left behind when he apparently fled. They found lots of liquor, electronics, pornography, Cuban cigars and -- "one of the weirder things" -- pictures of President Bush's twin daughters in one of Oday's gymnasiums, Capt. Ed Ballanco said.

"We took the pictures down, though," Ballanco said. "Just to, kind of, protect our -- protect our president here."