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Reporter's Notebook: Iraqis Don't Back Attacks
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| Nov. 27, 2003
| Greg Palkot
Posted on 11/28/2003 4:50:09 AM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:38:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: backlash; insurgents; iraq; iraqicivilians; rebuildingiraq
To: MJY1288; Calpernia; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; Ernest_at_the_Beach; BOBTHENAILER; ...
The question is, have attacks, which are causing so many Iraqi casualties, affected the attitude of Iraqis toward the people behind the acts? Could they, in fact, have a backlash effect, drying up what’s thought to be slim support in the Iraqi population for anti-coalition forces? According to Dr. Jalal Massa, who runs a clinic next door to the shattered Red Cross building, the answer is "yes."
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Greg Palkot ~ "man on the street" in Iraq, listening to more than just Hussein loyalists and terrorist-wannabes.
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posted on
11/28/2003 4:55:03 AM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
( "Our military is full of the finest people on the face of the earth." ~ Pres. Bush, Baghdad)
Comment #3 Removed by Moderator
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Somehow the coalition needs to get across to the Iraqis that THEY have to help with the reconstruction. THEY have to help to stop the attacks on the infrastructure. If THEY want freedom, they have to fight for it along side of us. We are their liberators, not their daddy.
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Greg Palkot ~ "man on the street" in Iraq, listening to more than just Hussein loyalists and terrorist-wannabes ~ Bump!
FNC ~ Bump!
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posted on
11/28/2003 10:05:08 AM PST
by
blackie
To: McGavin999
And amid the negative comments about the attacks, Iraqis still grumble about perceived reconstruction shortcomings.
Reconstruction might move along a little faster if the insurgents weren't blowing up pipelines, transmission towers, our guys and local coalition supporters.
Hopefully the Iraqis will soon realize that security and reconstruction go hand in hand and turn in the "outsiders". Sheesh - what we call a "no brainer".
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posted on
11/28/2003 10:31:15 AM PST
by
Tunehead54
(Support Our Troops!)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
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posted on
11/28/2003 10:36:26 AM PST
by
arasina
(CHRISTMAS! [just try and take my tag line away, Bloomberg])
To: arasina
Thank you very much, arasina. Enjoying the day after Thanksgiving, as well. Hope you and yours had a blessed day.
Very good to see the anti-terrorist rally written up in The Age. BBC, too (BBC!):
8 Iraqis rally against 'terrorism' ~ BBC | 11/28/03 |
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posted on
11/28/2003 12:28:25 PM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
( "Our military is full of the finest people on the face of the earth." ~ Pres. Bush, Baghdad)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
He told me, "the more Iraqis that are being killed, the more they feel they are being targeted …by a lost cause." 
Terrorists: Idiots shooting themselves in the foot.
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posted on
11/28/2003 2:43:48 PM PST
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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