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To: KLP who wrote (9089)9/23/2003 10:41:08 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793738
 
Only 8 percent of those queried said they believed their lives would be worse off as a result of the military campaign to remove Mr. Hussein and his Baath Party leadership.


Anybody care to speculate what percentage of this 8% held Ba'athist Party offices before Saddam's fall?



To: KLP who wrote (9089)9/23/2003 10:42:28 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793738
 
But some Iraqis defended the Arab networks, as Al Sahib, 33, did when he said that expelling them or restricting their coverage "will give them a pretext to bark more and to cry with other Arab countries about there being no freedom of press in Iraq."

'Scuse me, do you call this a defense? All we are discussing here is tactics.