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To: DavesM who wrote (163387)	6/1/2005 11:22:33 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>Can the majority population, a group had been oppressed for decades by a privileged minority, be considered collaborators?<< Well, yes--considered by the "privileged minority" that has been deprived of power by American troops. From my point of view, the Shiites don't seem to be particularly eager to have Americans running their country and don't seem like collaborators. It does look as if more Shiites than Sunnis are willing to cooperate with American plans for turning Iraq into a Democracy. But there have been these mass murders of whole platoons of newly recruited Iraqi "security forces," apparently seen by someone as traitors to their country. I think the whole situation is a mess that the first George Bush was wise enough not to get mixed up in. Saddam Hussein was certainly a big problem, but it has probably been a mistake to turn him into an American problem.