Karim Kadim is a Bad Ass

These are the good guys. You can tell by the... uh... hmm. Well, hopefully, they're not the ones shooting at you.

Award winning photographer Karim Kadim has balls of steel. Karim walks around Iraq all day with a camera taking pictures of stuff, and then sells pictures to Americans. Regardless of your race, this doesn't sound like a safe way to make a living.

A recent picture for the Associated Press by Kadim got me thinking. It portrays an Iraqi soldier in full battle dress, Kevlar vest and helmet, holding a gun that looks like it could shoot holes in a tank for 30 minutes straight without running out of ammo. We have to realize that every single gun and piece of body armor that we supply an Iraqi is just fuel on the fire. What happens when the American superiors aren't around? We find pickup truck beds full of corpses daily. At least now the factions can kill each other efficiently and in greater numbers, I suppose.