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To: zonder who wrote (472220)	10/7/2003 10:19:45 AM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I'm not calling the Iraqi Governing Council thugs. From the article you posted. "most Iraqis simply do not believe that the occupation is benevolent, and therefore refuse to collaborate to make it a success." I don't buy the authors "therefore." The Iraqi citizenry still fear for their lives. They are not fearful of the U.S., rather Saddam's thugs that are still kicking around, kidnapping, blowing up pipelines etc., I understand it is very unsafe for an Iraqi woman to take a cab on her own for fear of being kidnapped and sold into a prostitution ring ... Saddam's henchman are like a powerful mafia now threatening baathist and nonbaathist alike and it is because of that the citizens are reluctant to collaborate with the U.S. They are currently living under the threat of thugs. It's kind of like how South Africa was after aparthied ended. Many white people said, because of the rising crime in white areas, that SA society was better/safer before blacks gained their freedom. But what was happening was that the black criminals the white government supported before aparthied ended were now unleased on all of society. Blacks argued that the increased crime whites areas were experiencing was the same crime the preaparthied regime was happy to tolerate and promote in all black areas. They seem to be getting their act together in SA, may be the Iraqis will too. A little truth and conciliation might help the Iraqis as it has helped the South Africans.