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To: LindyBill who wrote (82329)	3/15/2003 7:27:51 AM
From: spiral3	Respond to of 281500

The last paragraph is what concerns me also. Can the US pull a hearts and minds out of the hat, that is the test this magician faces...thank heavens for unintended consequences.

To: LindyBill who wrote (82329)	3/15/2003 12:47:10 PM
From: Sig	Respond to of 281500

>>>Some 65% of Iraq's 24 million inhabitants are Shiite Muslims, large numbers of whom had relatives butchered by Saddam's Republican Guard as it quelled the uprising in the south that followed the 1991 defeat in the desert. Tens of thousands of Iraqi draftees are the children of these victims of the regime's savagery. In the north, the Kurds' hatred for Saddam is legendary, while the regular army is almost surely a demoralized shadow of the force we faced in 1991. >>> Here is where the treatment of prisoners by the Americans 12 years ago will help win this war. They were not lined up and shot, tortured, made to dig ditches. Conversely they got much better food than they were used to, given water and clothes if needed Generally placed with their own people and ignored if they did not cause trouble.Asked what their needs were. Actually lived under an umbrella of protection from enemies in their own country, such as the Kurds and higher level officers who promised to execute them if they did not fight. And a great relief since for them the war had ended. I wasn't there but I freely believe comments that the regular army may surrender swiftly, that we will be welcomed as liberators, that they will fight the Republican Guard if given a chance, and even help us in preventing Saddam from destroying their own oil fields. Sig@flowersonthetanks.com