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To: Ilaine who wrote (103358)	6/28/2003 10:38:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

CB, Kiwi culture includes that "out with the wheelbarrows" gung ho approach. Well, it did. With the social welfare bludger's, nanny-state culture which we now have, I doubt many wheelbarrows would appear these days. Britain and Germany also had that culture. I dare say Japan too. Iraqis will have tidied up their bit as best they could. Bearing in mind that in reality, a tiny proportion of them have anything new to clean up. It wasn't exactly a major war. As I expected, the main problem the USA troops had was driving around Baghdad finding somebody who wanted to shoot back. Ex-soldiers in their undies running for their lives was about what I thought. So there wasn't a lot of call for wheelbarrows to remove leveled buildings. Most of the wheelbarrows were used to carry looted goods [under the guns of the occupying troops]. But even the Brits, Kiwis and Germans would mostly have been working on their local neighbourhood and personal property. We used to have "working bees" where men would show up and work all day to help out with some project, unpaid. There's not much of that these days. Women would make tea and scones. Blokes would have a beer afterwards. Mqurice