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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (133355)	5/17/2004 10:05:27 PM
From: Dr. Id	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

And guess what? the Iraqis agree with that assessment, and don't want us to pull out right now either. Wrong again... commondreams.org The Iraqis don't like us and don't want us around. In the copyrighted Gallup survey of Iraqi attitudes, 58 percent of the respondents said that U.S. troops had behaved badly even before the Abu Ghraib pictures appeared -- 81 percent in Baghdad. Seventy-one percent of them see the Americans as occupiers, not liberators; 40 percent think that attacks on the Americans are justified, and only one-third of the Arabs think they are better off under the Americans than under Saddam (87 percent of the Kurds do). Chairman Mao said that guerrillas swim in the sea of the people. Patently, the sea is big enough in Iraq to support a prolonged ''insurgency.'' The enemy now are not the ''few thugs and foreign agitators'' whom the president denounces, but the Iraqi people. They don't want us in their country, they don't like us, they want us out. They indeed want democracy (the Gallup data show), but not at our hands.