RECKON THEY'LL DROP BY TO SAY THANKS?

A German cultural facility will re-open "as soon as possible" in Baghdad, officials in Munich said Friday.

A delegation from the Goethe Institute and the German Foreign Office will likely go to the Iraqi capital in late August to assess the situation, it was said.

"We want to re-open the centre as soon as possible," said Goethe Institute President Jutta Limbach.

Jutta failed to mention that the "possible" in her statement is a result of US and British efforts, while her government merely trashed us from the sidelines all along the way.