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To: GST who wrote (156806)	4/30/2003 2:51:29 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

ROTFL. You must take everyone here for a "rube" if you think no one would notice that this is not a current account of anything, much less an indication of a deterioration of Allied control. More distortions and bullshit from GST. Here's the opening paragraph of your article, emphasis added: A few days after American troops entered Baghdad, I went to Saddam City, a sprawling slum inhabited almost exclusively by Shia Muslims. But, by the time I got there, Saddam City was gone. Yes, the people were still there, as was the poverty--the kids playing barefoot soccer on dirt lots and the young men carrying AK-47 assault rifles. But it was Saddam City no longer. THIS IS SADR CITY, announced a spray-painted sign as I drove into the slum, renamed for Sheik Mohammed Sadek Al Sadr, who was killed along with two of his sons in 1999 for speaking out against Saddam Hussein. Another sign welcomed me to REVOLUTION CITY. BTW, the Grand Ayatollah Sistani that your "news find" claims is in hiding has recently been quoted in the press as opposing theocratic rule by clerics. If you want to learn what's really going on among Shiite clerics with regard to the future of Iraq, here's an article for you. But I caution that you may not like what you read - there's nothing alarming about it. nytimes.com