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Friday 1st August
I have been honored to give the eulogy at Qusay and Uday's joint funeral
service. A nervous audience sits in the cool shadows of the mosque
breathlessly looking around. Their father sits in the 7th row wearing a
Yoda mask and a turban, attracting no notice. I look out at the crowd and
begin. "These boys were so good! Ask the family on Musri street who
received a refrigerator, a generator and a new roof at their true moment
of need. Yes, their 12-year old twins were taken as love slaves for the
brothers and, no argument here, were found later in a barrel of acid, but
this formerly destitute family can now keep milk for up to ten days before
it goes bad." The Yoda mask nodded, impressed.
"These were sons of Allah, who kept his word the way they kept their
own..." the eyes in the Yoda mask looked sideways to see what his fellow
worshippers
made of this. "They shared their whisky, porn, coke, horse, you name it,
with their bodyguards, slaves and toadies eagerly. I'll never forget the
time Uday lent his human ear collection to Habitat for Humanity's
travelling museum so that others could have homes." A single cough, and
nothing more, told me that the bird was hovering nearby and that I should
think about wrapping it up. "Let us say goodbye, then, to these recently
reconstructed lumps of clay. Let us decry the use of silver bullets by
the United States Army, and by all means let's stop using garlic as a
weapon." Everyone shot their Kalashnikovs up in the air as a punctuation
mark and I skipped out of there just before the dome fell in, Yoda on my
heel.
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