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To: LindyBill who wrote (35623)	3/19/2004 1:25:42 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793690

One more UN nose in our tent. Just heard some NPR reporter (forget who) from Baghdad musing about the state of affairs one year on. He noted that every vacant lot is now a used car lot and traffic is terrible. So there is some prosperity. But then he says how strange it is not to see the NGOs and the Red Cross and the UN and laments that they will just have to come back, the US cannot rebuild Iraq on its own. I'm thinking, you dumb f---, who needs these disaster vultures? The US needs to work with the Iraqis on killing terrorists and preventing civil war. Let the Iraqis rebuild Iraq; they are perfectly capable. Let their own exile community help them. The US is already supplying lots of manpower and money. Not one survey of actual Iraqis has ever expressed a need for the UN or the NGOs. But to the media, it doesn't matter what the Iraqis think, only they UN and the NGOs are capable or legitimate.