Sadr City: My fall-back date to the prom

By Jane Stillwater
http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com

After being stuck in the Green Zone press room for more than a week, I was starting to feel like a real wallflower.  Nobody loves me!  But when the Iraqi Army boldly asked me out to the Red Zone prom, you can imagine how I felt!  At last!  A chance to get dressed up in my very best Kevlar!  And maybe even get driven in a chauffeured limo Humvee!

But then I got stood up. 

No tour of Baghdad for me.  No going to the Red Zone accompanied by the most popular date in town.  Rats.  And the Iraqi Army didn’t even call me back with some lame excuse.  Not even,