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To: tejek who wrote (446167)	8/21/2003 1:54:30 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

LOL! How naive you pinheads are....OF COURSE it is "messy"...it is a war zone....

To: tejek who wrote (446167)	8/21/2003 1:56:05 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 769667

Haunted by Iraq motherjones.com <<...I thought I might start today with an email I received recently from a "unilateral" photojournalist (that is, one not "embedded" with American troops) who spent several months in Iraq and Kuwait both during and after the recent war. He wanted me to know that Vietnam Vet James Larocca, whose Newsday op-ed, "Have We Forgotten Anger in the Eyes" was quoted in a previous dispatch, "has it right." The photojournalist says: "I saw these tactics first hand and having a great deal of experience in law-enforcement coverage first hand, I stood in disbelief as we blundered and bullied away the hearts and minds of the common Iraqi people. The culture gap is being widened to an abyss, as wide as the eyes of the children dragged out of bed in the night. Iraqis who once viewed our soldiers as liberators now see us as no different than Saddam's enforcers, holding 'suspects' at gunpoint with bags over their heads for all to see. In one published case U.S. soldiers took the family of a sought-after Iraqi officer hostage, leaving a note behind stating if he wanted to see them again, he should surrender. I will always be haunted by the faces of war, but I will also be haunted by the faces of the 'Iraqi peace.' I know that not all Iraqis see us this way and I still hold out hope that things will turn around. But I do not see anything changing our tactics at all. I must also say that I support our soldiers, as I got to know many of them. They as a whole are stuck doing the dirty work as the service demands. I can tell you that many of them are wondering out loud what we have done, and whether it's right. I could go on and on about the lack of planning and common sense associated with the occupation of Iraq (or the war itself)."...>>