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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (92863)	4/12/2003 2:19:40 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Local militia and the "Mujahideen" fought fiercely through Friday night until after dawn, with the sound of sustained small arms and heavy machinegun fire suggesting substantial clashes between the two groups. U.S. forces were not involved. Ain't it nice? Story after story confirms everything you and I hoped would happen when we liberated the place. Remember Bilow's dire predictions about how the locals would go to ground on us? Instead, they are killing the damn "third country nationals,"

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (92863)	4/14/2003 4:32:49 AM
From: JustTradeEm	Respond to of 281500

"The locals said they wanted to take charge of Saddam City and we said: 'Roger that'," Lieutenant-Colonel Lew Craparotta, commander of a Marine unit that moved back from the fringes of the suburb, told Reuters. Iraqis making decisions for themselves ? For their individual benefit and the benefit of the whole ? Say it ain't so ..... seedlings of democratic thought and action taking hold ? But .... everyone on the left said Iraqis were incapable of such things ..... That the U.S. needs to DO everything for them .... Just how long can all the doomsayers be wrong ? Forver one would guess .... JB