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To: laura_bush who wrote (108311)	7/27/2003 4:51:57 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Hi "laura_bush"; Interesting article. Re: "One of the first acts of the council was to declare April 9, the anniversary of the day that Saddam's statue was toppled, a national holiday. But Pachachi said he already regretted this "possibly hasty decision"." I doubt that there is a free country on the planet that celebrates the day a foreign army came in and put down a local government. Sure they celebrate VE day in France, but it ain't a big shin-dig over in Germany. Nor do the Japanese celebrate their loss in WW2. The Americans don't get a day off on the anniversary of the fall of Vietnam and the Mexicans don't celebrate the surrender in 1848. The upshot of all this is to note that with this sort of decision (i.e. declaring a national holiday to celebrate having had their butts kicked by the US), the more "God, duty, honor and country" portion of the Iraqi people are very unlikely to support the Council. And it is those conservative elements that are running the guerilla war against us. -- Carl

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