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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (21060)	6/26/2003 7:00:18 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

A U.S. military spokesman, Maj. William Thurmond, played down this week's violence as a "spike" and not a trend. Thurmond said the spate of ambushes could be a response to recent U.S. raids on Baath Party strongholds. While fluctuations in the level of violence (as unfortunately measured by US Deaths) will occur, I sadly expect the first true trend in the data will be up - i.e. any diminution in violence from Saddam loyalists will be more than compensated by countless “Mujahedeen of the Victorious Sect” that are currently forming all over Iraq. "There have been more attacks recently but it's probably premature to say this is part of a pattern," Thurmond said. "We've kicked open the nests of some of these bad guys." I'm afraid Thurmond’s bosses are in for an “attitude adjustment”. Their current problem isn’t some Baath Bad Boyz – although they exist and must be dealt with. The problem is the seething discontent that permeates a society whose cultural history is filled with vendettas. Where (geographically) do they think the phrase “eye for an eye” came from? This is the Middle East, boyz - where you don’t “get even”, you totally dominate. It isn’t a few Saddam loyalists that the US military has to worry about, to a very good approximation, it’s the Iraqi population. JMO lurqer