I Planned This Vacation Eight Years Ago, Damnit!

This guy has to be missing one of those self-preservation parts of the brain or something. You have to admire his sense of adventure, if not his complete lack of the far more valuable common sense.

"I was looking for cheap accommodation here in Falluja, but the authorities explained to me that it was impossible because there are not any hotels here. They suggested a short tour and then go back to Baghdad."

"I explained to him that it was not safe to move around," said Rinato Di Porcia, the deputy chief of mission at the Italian Embassy in Baghdad. "He is a little bit naïve."

Good stuff.