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To: scion who wrote (86645)	5/9/2004 1:09:23 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 122087

Reasonable post and I have to agree. The only disagreement I have is that the many who would think that it was far worse under Saddam are either not around or too frightened to speak out. If you are living under fear for 30 years, you don't come out and speak against the crowd. The crowd right now is controlled by the competing clerics. They have the megaphonesa and the money, and they know how to use it, and those who would oppose this are very easily frightened. You remember, I'm sure, the hacking of a couple of clerics but other clerics. These guys knew what they had to do to take advantage of the US moves. I agree with those who have said that the US had no real plan to deal with these things. It seems that the clerics were able to plan and react to our moves better than we were able to do ourselves. Again, what was done to the prisoners is terrible but it's now become a political bonanza both in Iraq and here, and I think that will change when it is taken into perspective with other things that have happened recently and historically.