Topic: The Places
I'm still stuck at Camp Stryker. I'm trying to entertain myself by visiting the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) tent. It has computers, board games, and video games. Still . . . I'm starting to get bored. Hopefully I can get out of here on Saturday morning.

In and other news . . . there are no lights in Saddam's Bunker. When you go into it, you have to take a flashlight. European engineers designed the entire bunker to withstand the impact of a nuclear bomb. When the two five hundred pound bombs hit the palace in 2003, the blasts supposedly didn't even break a light bulb in the bunker.

As the Americans, stormed into Baghdad, Saddam's cronies abandoned the bunker. Shortly after they left, Iraqi and Americans looted the bunker. They took almost everything that wasn't bolted to the ground. Then, because the Americans cut off power to the bunker, the water pumps could no longer stop the groundwater table, which is fairly high throughout all of Iraq, from flooding the bottom three floors of the bunker.

People living inside the Green Zone do stop by for a visit now and then, but most of the excitement of visiting the bunker has faded. Going there is about as exciting as visiting an abandoned steel mill.