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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (450820)	9/1/2003 8:39:51 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The US grossly miscalculated the streak of violence in Iraqi society, True, American strategists might have taken note of the history of violence and bloodshed in the country and the perpetual state of tension and confrontation there, but they went wrong when they expected the people of Iraq to stay put and remain forever grateful to Washington for ending the tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein. That is the fundamental lesson the Bush administration should learn from Friday's bombing in Najaf and the blast at the UN headquarters in Baghdad in mid-August. Shocking as it might have been to many around the world, the bombings should not have come as a surprise, since the natural course of events in Iraq dictated such attacks. It is the very nature of Iraqi society that produced a ruthless and iron-fisted Saddam Hussein as its ruler. Had Saddam been soft, he would not have survived in power and the Iraqis themselves understood it more than anyone else. Whatever perspective one adopts to review the situation in Iraq, it is increasingly becoming clear that the US has got itself in a quagmire. Notwithstanding the brave face put up by US President George W Bush and his aides and their vows to stay the course in Iraq, the reality is that the US has not been able to contain the situation in post-war Iraq and it will never be able to do so either. jordantimes.com