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To: KonKilo who wrote (104928)	7/12/2003 12:53:58 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Neocon hawks' inability to see any Iraqi who is not smiling or tossing flowers has been partly to blame for leading us into the morass in which we now find ourselves. Whoa, there. Did I ever say that just because Iraqis are glad to be rid of Saddam, they are all thrilled to be occupied by the Americans? I did not. Kindly do not put words in my mouth. There are plenty of other problems with the occupation that will have to be dealth with one way or another. But everybody your articles are quoting as wanting Saddam back lives in the "Sunni Triangle", Saddam's homeland - Faluja, Tikrit, etc. These are his tribemen. These are the beneficiaries of the former regime. Go ask the other 90% of the Iraqis if they want Saddam back, you'll get a very different answer.

To: KonKilo who wrote (104928)	7/12/2003 4:54:56 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

The Neocon hawks' inability to see any Iraqi who is not smiling or tossing flowers has been partly to blame for leading us into the morass in which we now find ourselves. A funny or not so funny story on US "press bias". Some NPR show was doing a story about early postwar coverage and the famous "Marines pulling down Saddam statue to cheering crowds" scene in Baghdad. The US networks, biased as they are, showed only the close in shots, where you couldn't tell how many people were actually involved; the rest of the world saw a big, mostly empty square with maybe a couple hundred people in it. Imagine the whinage we'd have gotten if anybody had tried coverage like that with an antiwar protest. Somehow, I doubt the eternal "liberal press bias" whiners saw anything the least little bit wrong with the US network coverage. Everybody's got to do their part when it comes to war propaganda.