Dylan Welch - 13 Jul 2007
It's one of the more extraordinary statements issued by those chaps in the British Army.

"We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area," said British military spokesman Major Mike Shearer.

To make it crystal, another spokesman added: "We have not released giant badgers in Basra and nor have we been collecting eggs and releasing serpents into the Shatt al-Arab river.

This has to be one of the silliest statements about this 'war' that I've heard in a long time. Yet it is also so utterly sad that what education had been available in Iraq is so degraded that it is completely understandable why such medaevil thinking is so easy to spread as explanation for a beast that may not have been seen in the area before.

I feel sorry for the badgers ... and the people who haven't met them before and think that they are scary. This whole thing is just a mess *sighs*