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To: NickSE who wrote (43784)	3/15/2003 9:27:42 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Will They Fight? Iraqi officers recount the "mother of all battles." opinionjournal.com ...Saddam, one general recalled contemptuously, ridiculed Americans as a soft people who were afraid to die, and boasted that Iraqis would know how to bleed in the impending "mother of all battles." "When I heard that speech," the cynical officer quipped, "I realized he was talking about me and my men. We would bleed and sacrifice, but not Saddam, safe in his palace bunker."...

To: NickSE who wrote (43784)	3/16/2003 10:02:06 AM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Shiite exiles await war and freedom theage.com.au Iraqi Shiites arriving daily in Syria say they will celebrate the day the US topples Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Free to speak without fear of bloody reprisal, they say Mr Saddam is loathed by most Iraqis and should be overthrown. "Saddam is a killer," said Mohammed, an engineer from Baghdad. Speaking near the Seida Zeinab Mosque, a Shiite shrine on the outskirts of Damascus where many Iraqis have come to wait out a possible war, Mohammed said 99 per cent of Iraqis wanted Mr Saddam gone and the 1 per cent that didn't were those close to the regime. Expecting to be back in Baghdad soon after the war, Mohammed predicted Mr Saddam's fall would be rapid. "It will take two days of hell. I know my people. They will help the American army get rid of Saddam's government." Mohammed's wife Farah nodded. "The people will throw flowers on to the street to greet the American army," she said. "The people are very happy. It's only a matter of waiting now." [cont'd...]