Bloodless Coup

Very Articulate Iraqi Twins

Via CNN, we get two interesting statements. The first one:

"'The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the ISF and all of Iraq. They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists,' said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified."

Number two:

"'The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the children and all of Iraq,' said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified. 'They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists.'"

The first paragraph was from an official US Army statement following one of the innumerable attacks in Iraq. The statement was issued today. The second paragraphs was from an official US Army statement following one of the innumerable attacks in Iraq; this one was from July 13th.

Most people are assuming that the US Army manufactured the quotes, and just slipped up and re-used one. Nonsense. I think it's perfectly obvious that either (A)The same person was interviewed twice, eleven days apart, and liked his earlier quote so much that he re-used it (not the Army's fault), or (B)A pair of identical Iraqi twins were interviews separately, but since they were inseparable from birth, they think identically, and came up with the same quote in very similar circumstances.

I'm leaning towards B; it's more poetic.

Posted by baltar at July 24, 2005 09:19 PM | TrackBack | Posted to International Affairs