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To: LindyBill who wrote (52304)	6/30/2004 11:42:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 793839

Just saw an interview with Christianne Amanpour on Charlie Rose. She presented a balanced glass-half-full/half-empty view of Iraq, which agrees with the ideas I had been getting from reading the press and blogs. The insurgency has no popular support but people are still too scared of the insurgents to inform on them; Fallujah is a mini Taliban state full of foreign fighters; the people are glad to be rid of Saddam and hopeful about the future; they really want democracy but worry it will be torpedoed; they are traumatized all over (they who were already traumatized by 30 years of Saddam) by this spate of violence, which slows down the large scale reconstruction that must be done; the new government talks a good game but still must rely on American muscle; it's still a question if the new government can convince the people that they are strong enough for people to dare to support them against the terrorists. All in all, pretty balanced, without too much of the relentless cynicism and pessimism that besets so many veteran reporters.

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