Defiance!

In a gesture of defiance following yesterday’s bombing of the Iraqi parliamentary cafeteria, the parliament met in special session today and defiantly ate sloppy joes.

The deputy US commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, said, “Frankly yesterday was a bad day, a very bad day. But we’re going to come back from that.” Some people took that literally: two of the three MPs who were announced as having been killed in the blast yesterday, plus 5 other victims, are evidently no longer dead. Now that’s defying the terrorists!