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To: LindyBill who wrote (8154)	9/16/2003 12:21:10 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793755

Just saw Tom Friedman on Charlie Rose, back from Iraq. Gist: journalists should not be so overwhelmed by day to day stories that they lose the trend. Now there was a tremendous failure of planning, and we don't have enough troops, and security is a mess, but the net trend is on the whole positive, because we have shared interests with 90% of Iraqis - they do want a functioning country, they don't want Saddam back and they don't want a theocracy. The terrorists are going to awful lengths. They blew up the UN. They blew up the Tomb of Ali. But they didn't spark a bloodbath. The Iraqi governing council was formed anyway. So we have to shift as much resources as possible to Iraq, better late than never, to rebuild Iraq from scratch. Friedman also noted that journalists bore partial responsibility for the DoD's lack of preparedness because they had never reported how poor and broken down Iraq had become.