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To: LindyBill who wrote (98463)	5/18/2003 3:51:20 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

And I keep reading reports of email after email from officers over there who say, "Don't believe the media, the Iraqis love us." Talked with the family of one of our Military near the Iraq Syrian border..... Evidently most of the Iraqi's do like the Americans, and are happy with the situation...(understatement here)....but there are others coming in, or trying to get in, through the borders that are causing a good deal of the trouble in Iraq....

To: LindyBill who wrote (98463)	5/18/2003 3:54:19 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

For example, we now know that the initial reports of the looting of the Museum were wrong. This needs to be called out loud and clear, because some of the same "opinion makers" were in the group that were front and center with those looting reports, and daming the Military and the Administration for not "planning ahead more"..... None of them have printed a retraction, that I have seen.

To: LindyBill who wrote (98463)	5/18/2003 4:25:42 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"For example, we now know that the initial reports of the looting of the Museum were wrong." What did happen?

To: LindyBill who wrote (98463)	5/19/2003 9:28:32 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 281500

A New York Post reporter, still "imbedded" with a scout company in Bagdad, was really savage a few days ago about the conduct of his fellow reporters in Baghdad. I saw the article, and took it as one point of view, no more or less inherently valid than any other. It's important to recognize that a reporter embedded in a military unit is not getting an accurate picture of what Iraqis think of the American occupation, and neither are American soldiers. The people that approach and deal with military occupiers tend to be those that approve of their presence. The others stay away. There are definitely a fair number of Iraqis that do not want to be governed by the US. Probably a fair number of these bear no ill will toward US soldiers, and many of them are probably glad Saddam is gone. There is no incompatibility there: people that were glad to see Saddam driven out can still wish to see Americans leave as soon as possible. The question of whether or not some Iraqis - and it's ridiculous for anyone to say "most", since we just don't know - like or dislike the Americans is no longer terribly important. What is important is what exactly is being done, in terms of physical reconstruction and political development. The latter is my main concern, and I see no cause for optimistic evaluation.