This is great to see. It would not be posted in MSM. To them we have already failed the Afghan's. When you have to look on blog site's for actual proof of what we have done over there, they are the failure of themselves. I suggest everybody stops buying a paper for 1 month. It would not be long before they starting asking themselves if they have crossed the line of honesty.

Sorry, is that Afghanistan or Iraq? I've got to admit my knowledge of Arabic scripts is rather below par. Either way, it's great to see enterprise and prosperity returning for these people. Lord knows they deserve it. I look forward to the day I can travel there, tour the country, and sit down to share a cool glass of lemonade on a hot day with a few of the locals. God bless 'em all.

Addendum: Seems I've had to change my nom de blog from DrD to DrDave to avoid getting caught in Kate's spam filter. Am I really that annoying? Gosh, this new handle makes me feel so naked!

Do they serve extra crispy?

"I suggest everybody stops buying a paper for 1 month..

1 month ?

How exactly does that 'solution' help? An analogy would be to for a drug user to stop using for 1 month and then go right back to the habit.

1 month is better than nothing but not really by much.

Just say NO. Don't buy a copy EVER. It's pretty much ALL propaganda anyway. I will read an article if it is referenced on a blog or if the columnist has a good record, but otherwise, not so much.

The machine is broken. It can't and it won't fix itself and without fixing it is much worse than nothing at all. It simply has to run itself into the ground and something else will then arise to replace it.
Half measures simply are insufficient.

The hilarity of the photo is not just the KFC the group has congregates outside of, apparently booming with business, but the fact that all the other shops are closed at the same time.

Click on the photo for the story:

Only a short time ago the city of Fallujah served as stronghold for insurgents. Daily skirmishes, improvised explosive device detonations and public unease made operating a business in the city very difficult.
Today, with improved security throughout the region, the low price of 4,000 dinar, or $3.50, will purchase a full meal at the recently established Kentucky Fried Chicken in the Hey Al Dubat area of the city.
The KFC is the first to open for business in the city. Before improved conditions in the city, insurgents threatened business owners, demanding money to support acts of terrorism.

I found one news link to the corresponding photo.. At least some report what goes on inside that place...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ihd4G9XxJOc

Capitalism is reality-based, so it should triumph in the long run; the problem today is that a lot of people do not realize it is in their own best interests. Al-Qaeda and all other fanatics have ideologies based on fantasy rather than reality, which in practice is nothing more than old-fashioned pre-rule-of-law might-makes-right power politics. Attila and the Witch Doctor are two sides of the same counterfeit coin, as Ayn Rand pointed out.

Watch for a Three Part series on the National;

'KFC, A Sign That Iraqis Are Enjoying A Much Better Life Thanks To Coalition Troops' (no thanks to Chretien and Warren)

Surely no one would long for the good old days. The days of Uday and Qusay roaming around - crash a wedding, rape a Bride.

But, then again, Peter will undoubtingly be able to find some Canadian Sociology Prof only too willing to spin anti-American drivel.

Maybe, just maybe, It will be Iraq that finally gets the Vietnam monkey off America's back. Perhaps this is what has the Latte Left so worried. 'Nam' has been in the Hippies operations manual for four decades now. Losing that part would rip the heart out of the book.

I haven't bought a newspaper in years, and am happy to know that I'm doing my bit to put the Canadian print media out of business.

Why?

Because when I did support Canadian newspapers by subscribing to and buying them, I was constantly disappointed. The stories I was looking for were either not covered or covered so badly, with such lib-left spin and gusto, that I threw most of the news print in the recyle bin without having been enlightened in any way.

Don't get me started on what the newspapers WERE/ARE printing. Pure bumph, for the most part, touting the editor's/publisher's/journalists' own pet projects and/or their friends' un-noteworthy projects. Who the Hell cares about the latest gay fad or the most recent theatrical crap being staged at The Fringe or The Plantageant, for that matter?

If you want reality, check out the blogs. The Canadian MSM is fast making itself irrelevant due to arrogance and pride. It's demise, I believe, is called hubris.

If KFC can't succeed in Iraq, nothing can!

For whatever reason, KFC Halal-certified fried chicken is one of the most popular "Western" fast foods amongst Arabs in the Gulf region.

I wonder if Obama will drop in for some gladhanding.

Thats porbably the only way the MSM will run this story.

Of course thats the poison pill of Obama going to the region.
If they run clips of him going to places like this the media can't run the usual stories of carnage in the streets.
Oh the horror.

Good to see some peace and normalcy returning there. I wondered how the usual paranoid fanatical muslim haters can claim on the one hand that all muslims are liars and bloodthirsty inhuman killers and yet pretend to care about the safety and welfare of Iraqis. The answer is they don't comment on threads like this and of course they are hypocrits but so are many on the left.

"I wonder if Obama will drop in for some gladhanding."

He can stop in for a bite before the "Fried Chicken Free" Democratic Convention.

This is a very serious blow to the Leftard agenda. The proof is in the poutine, couldn't they have opened a Booster Juice? What about those poor chickens, and those poor soon to be fat people, and what about all of that take-out litter?

Look at the bright side leftards, at least I don't see a drive-thru.

No need for an extra couple of weeks.

We can celebrate today.

The surge worked.

America won!

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says so.

Also says Barack's timetable is where it's at.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,566841,00.html

How do you Canucks like that?

5:59 PM

George Bush is going to be responsible for clogging the arteries of the Iraqis to add to the list of horrors he has inflicted on them.... the loss of their dear leader,Saddam Hussein and now this.....Peter, back to you!

Are you kidding, Obama would drop by for glad handing? The Americanization of Iraq would look just too, too positive for George Bush, evil personified in he Leftist minds. Could there be a Timmies around the corner?

Uh oh - The Colonel is indulging in fast-food imperialism ;-)

Of course Maliki is going to publicly agree with Obama, he knows who is going to be the next POTUS. What actually happens on the ground will continue to be negotiated, and will depend on events, as has been the case for some time.

The chickens they fry should be the terrorist yabbos that flee into the hills when our troops come around!

Misplaced Western guilt is toxic. We even have to feel bad about people wanting to eat fried chicken.

If the West is so bad, why are people always wanting to come here?

They used Maple lodge non Halal food called
Zabiheh which means hand slaughter by foolin Muslim while it is machine slauhger

all weiner of Maple lodge export by wrong lable of halal to Iraq now

is any body care? American and Candain soldure will buy that Iraqi not have money to pay for kentucky fry chicken
they are eating bomp instead.

recently Surefresh ( cericola farm ) non halal food also ship to that region too

'Haram' is opposite word of 'halal '
which halal is lawful

recently govermetn export canada who are crook is behind sending pork to Iraq as well

who care again

if Maple lodge can sell halal lable it wrong and just stamp it
we can let McCain pork also add some spice of pokr to chicken weiner and pork hams topping for salad used in KFC too

Where are the females in this picture. Why is it always men that are enjoying the fruits of freedom???? God, I am beginning to hate men.

The picture taken early morning because the stores close are still are not open in Iraq theyhave metal door cover the glas when they close the stores bluse door one is for travel agency or look like rent the car store next to KFC still was not open yet in that picture
this is proof the pictuer taken in early morning

those are group of young and teengers are standing outside of KFC
Some people saying most of frenchise are feed with Sadam soldure money who are rich and change their job to frenchis stores or trade now

Imagine if they should start choking on the wishbone!

Are there enough pigeons in Iraq to keep a KFC running?

Perhaps they have an excess of sea gulls..

"Iraqi not have money to pay for kentucky fry chicken
they are eating bomp instead."

Who put the bomp in the bomp-ba-bomp-ba-bomp,
who put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong?