Lost in Baghdad? Take Main Street to Virginia Avenue................

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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/14/1058034941240.html

"Most US troops on the ground in Baghdad have no say in how the Iraqi capital is rebuilt, but many are laying down their own blueprint of the city - with US street names ousting the traditional Arabic ones.

You won't find Canal Road, California or Coors Street on the commercial street maps of Baghdad, but this is the new Iraq, where US soldiers are redrawing the city one English name at a time.

"Just go down Main Street until you hit Virginia Avenue and take a left," a Military Police (MP) officer recently told an AFP correspondent, drawing a finger along a glossy US Defence Department satellite map spread across the hood of a Humvee in downtown Baghdad."

Arrogance?