[VOA]

Not exactly a cheerful, happy society just bursting with love for us.

Love is relative.
Most of them hated Uday and Quasy a lot more than Coalition troops.

Hence the riotous gunfire in Baghdad as soon as they were getting news via
their satellite TV about Uday/Quasy having been ventilated.

Stay tuned for the next 60 days...the power/water problems should be taken care
of by then and the new Iraqi militia should be joining the Coalition patrols.

It's a dicey situation...but not yet as Vietnam.
As much as about 95% of the press (the Democratic/Leftist journalists)
are each angling for a Pulitzer Prize for being the first to document the
Middle East Vietnam.

[liberallarry]

Sorry guys. My post was directed at traditionalist who, on an earlier thread, seemed to think that because Iraqis weren't participants in 911 they weren't part of a larger frustrated, angry, violent Arab/Muslim culture which directed a large part of its resentment toward us.

Many of them cheered on 912.

It's a dicey situation...

We knew that going in ... but I believe we had, and have, no choice. We must force a radical change in Arab/Muslim culture or face the prospect of endless 911s.

[Milligan]

It's no Vietnam.


Maybe Lawrence of Arabia?