US And UK Celebrate Third 'Birthday' Of Freedom - March 23, 2006

Celebrations took place across America this week to commemorate the third anniversary of the start of the Iraqi war. 

Lead coalition countries, American and Britain, announced their pleasure with the third year marking the ‘birth of freedom’ in Iraq. 

US Vice President Dick Cheney said, “Now they are free. Free to kill each other, just like Americans.” He then ordered the firing of a twenty-one gun salute to commemorate the occasion - into a friend’s face.

The celebrations were complicated by a dispute between US and UK officials. “No one brought a bloody cake,” said the British UN Ambassador.

American officials denied it was their fault, claiming the cake that they initially provided was kidnapped by Musab al-Zaqarwi's forces. The cake later appeared on Al Jazeera TV in a blind fold, guarded by masked gunmen.

A cake was eventually provided by US government contractor, Halliburton. The cake, which cost $8m US dollars, was oil-based and will be delivered in March 2008. 

Shops in the US were flooded with gifts and novelty items for the anniversary which included silver-plated commemorative road-side bombs, Abu Ghraib human pyramid postcards, and a ‘My family died in Iraq and all I got was these prosthetic limbs’ T-shirt.