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To: arun gera who wrote (86492)	3/26/2003 10:04:44 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

The kind of damage Baghdad is experiencing is on the same scale as New York saw in 911. Granted that the US forces are being extremely careful in choosing its targets, it does hurt to see your city being destroyed. Lot of people feel that way about the WTC buildings. That may be true (though I doubt civilian casualties in Baghdad have approached one hundred yet, let alone three thousand, otherwise we'd have heard all about it). But it must be set against the kind of damage a Saddam Hussein does to both the city and its people by his rule. Consider that lots of the palaces we just blew up were horrible Stalinist building that Saddam had built over the razed remains of the ancient architecture of Baghdad.

To: arun gera who wrote (86492)	3/26/2003 10:07:01 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Arun, You are 100% right. It is a tragedy and bombing always sucks. My hope is that when this is over the US will take on the responsibility to help rebuild iraq/baghdad and not cut and run. I expect that once it is realized that the yolk of the baath party has been removed, iraqis will come to regard as liberators. And after reconstuction and the installation of a new, better government, US and iraqi will become friends as we did with our opponents after WW2. Contrary to jacobs posts, the US is not in the imperialism game at all. Our power indicates empire, but our people understand that empire is counter productive. mike