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To: GST who wrote (118089)	10/30/2003 12:59:04 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) of 281500

How many attacks in the last week? 250? That is far more than a "rearguard" action Not necessarily. Very peculiar notions of what a war, or a guerilla war is seem to filter through the media, made worse by their skewed attention. Every bomb that goes off in Jerusalem or Baghdad gets loving coverage, while a million people can die unnoticed in Congo. War is a series of coordinated attacks with a strategic objective. There is clearly a rearguard guerilla campaign being fought in the Sunni triangle by those who want power back. According to reports, Saddam's number 2, Izzat al Douri, is coordinating him. We need his head on a pike along with Saddam's. Even if Iraqis no longer see US as liberators (personally, if you look over my comments before the war you will see that I expected the Iraqis to be grateful, for about a week, then to turn. They are Arabs after all), it doesn't AT ALL mean that they sympathize with these attackers, who seem perfectly willing to blow up bunches of Iraqis together with the odd American or foreigner, and are just as indifferent to the sanctity of Ramadan as they are to the neutral status of the Red Crescent.

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