Telegraph | Opinion | The Iraqis are certainly acting as if they are headless

Back in Baghdad, the Independent's Robert Fisk told his readers on Thursday: "At the Alastrabak grocery store, I bought 25 loo rolls."


Ah, the bog of war. When we Bush poodles say, "Let's roll!", this is definitely not the kind of roll we have in mind. Fisk is either settling in for a long siege or padding his expenses, but I can't say this strikes me as a 25-roll war.


On the television, the network pretty boys are riding on the backs of tanks going full throttle through the southern desert, hour after hour. Will it all be over before the Independent's man is halfway through the first roll?


Or will he be like those elderly Japanese holed up in the jungle decades after the Second World War, refusing to come out of his Baghdad bathroom even after the last Andrex has gone and he's reduced to using all those old columns mocking the very idea of any link between Iraq and terrorism?[...]

Which gives me an idea for a pool. How many "loo rolls" will Fisk go through exactly before the end of the war? I say 10.


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