Flutterby™! : Killing Time in Iraq

On Saturday I was up in Petaluma helping Phil with some installer issues, and we wandered downtown to see if there was anything useful in Copperfield's. I've been keeping my eye open for My War: Killing Time In Iraq by Colby Buzzell, and they had a copy. I started it last night. It's a good read, and an interesting balance between someone with a Bay Area background who signed up to be on the front lines because he needed something to kick himself out of his rut, so he's both gung-ho and reflective in a way that I can empathize strongly with; a mix of metal-head twenty-something with a dry sense of humor. I just finished a passage about the politics of the on-base Iraqi stores, one of which started selling gasoline powered scooters and then, since they could only buy diesel fuel on base, gasoline:

... Chain of command finally told him he was not authorized to sell scooters to soldiers. I can't figure out if they shut down his scooter business because they didn't like the idea of soldiers on scooters, or if it was because they didn't like the idea of an Iraqi charging whatever the hell he wanted to for gas. Hmmm...