The point is that the iraqi people don't want us there.
How do you know this Lizzie?
Well, for one thing, there are reports of a sort of pilgrimage back to Iraq for the ex-pats-
Iraqis living outside the country are attempting to return to help resist. News of each American setback is greeted with cheers in cafes and smoking parlors. Callers to phone-in television programs extol "Bush's Vietnam." Among the Western-educated elite, cellphone text messages express outrage and solidarity.
And Obeid, the rifle-toting farmer, is a household name.
Arabs see these facts: Despite apparent Bush administration assurances that the war would be swift, and Iraqis would welcome the invaders with roses, fighting has entered a second week. Baghdad has not fallen, Saddam Hussein is possibly still alive, and resistance has been fierce. In fact, Iraq's tiny, disheveled port town of Umm Qasr, close to U.S.-friendly Kuwait, was holding out days after the Pentagon declared it liberated.
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