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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (2667)	3/25/2003 8:44:28 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21614

Just the kind of response I expected. Could be correct, if the "us" in question are Canadian journalists. If he is referring to the US Marines as "us", I don't know how he is going to explain the fact that heavy ground fighting continues, and not even the southmost cities are in US control. The "heavy ground fighting" isn't heavy enough to keep us from advancing on to Baghdad. Of course, Saddam has units loyal to him. And it looks like many of these have generally been bypassed to be dealt with in their time. Now maybe all those Iraqis the Canadian journalist witnessed were only happy to see him, the lone Canadian journalist. But let's revisit exactly what he said: The United States Marine Corps received a joyous welcome from Iraqi civilians and soldiers alike yesterday as they crashed deep into Iraqi territory on the great march to Baghdad. ...... All along the road, for many kilometres, Iraqi civilians and soldiers waved, blew kisses and gave the thumbs up to passing marine vehicles. ..... "All the peasants were cheering us, even the soldiers. They gave us the thumbs up, they blew us kisses. I couldn't believe all the boots that were lying on the road. The soldiers just left them there. ..... There was no hostility to speak of. There were some Iraqi civilians and as we drove there was an increasing number of Iraqi soldiers and there were incredible scenes. Scenes of many Iraqi citizens joyously welcoming the Americans. Also, saying with their arms, "Praise be to Allah" for being delivered. They were thanking the Americans for that. Interesting. Of course, this is southern Iraq, home of the 60% of the Iraqi population who are Shiites who've been especially heavily persecuted by Saddam. In central Iraq, there is about 20% of the population which is Sunni. Saddam may well have some more support there.