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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (11282)	2/8/2006 4:03:08 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541374

The Japanese had a certain sense that they had brought their occupation on themselves- a fatalism that the Iraqis do not have. The Japanese had, after all, committed a first strike on the US- the Iraqis had not. The Japanese were also decimated in a way the Iraqis have not been. If you look at the data on the percentage of their cities that were destroyed, the numbers are staggering. There were no acts of resistance in Japan- which pretty much sums up the Japanese attitude. There's a good book on Japan after the war called "Embracing Defeat". I read it some time ago, but found it instructive.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (11282)	2/8/2006 4:30:11 PM
From: Suma	Respond to of 541374

When the war started I was told that the Iraqi's would welcome us with open arms,flowers thrown at our feet.etc. This did not happen. And the numbers of Iraqi innocent have been estimated at over 100.000 killed. Lots women and children.. Also the wounded which according to a reporter who was at the treatment hospital where Woodruff was taken says there are lots of Iraqi's there too.. So, we are treating them. As an aside there are two MRI machines there and CT scan machines... so the equipment is up to date, possibly because the head wounds are so common and severe.. AT any rate.. I have not been impressed that the Iraqi's love us. Maybe they are tolerating us. We do not, as you know, get too much information from there as to how people are and what they might be feeling. How many journalists have been killed in the attempt to find out more information. What has happened to the reporter from the Christian Science Paper. We hear nothing of her. She was their friend.. She associated with the everyday kind of Iraqi. Nadine, how bad the oppressor was he was their oppressor. We are the FOREIGN oppressor and I do think we have worn out our welcome.. long ago. What we spawn there and what will grow from those seeds will be something only the future will let us know.