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To: Spruce
According to FOX news, even Al Jizz-smeara is playing this straight in the region.

I wonder how they are going to explain how it went from a "Hollywood movie" to cheering Iraqi's in central Baghdad in less than 12 hours?



7 posted on 04/09/2003 8:00:31 AM PDT by Yankee
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To: Yankee
I wonder how they are going to explain how it went from a "Hollywood movie" to cheering Iraqi's in central Baghdad in less than 12 hours? .

From what I saw it still is a a Hollywood movie in Baghdad. The Allies are still only in control of half of the city and how many people came out to celebrate, the camera had to zoom in make it look like a lot of people.

Considering Baghdad is home to 5 million people, the amount of people on the streets was embarrasing to say the least and I know these reporters have been through hell the last few days, but to compare it to the liberation of Paris or Berlin, or as Rummy said today, the downing of the Berlin Wall is just laughable.

What they should be concerned about is the missing Republican Guard that never materialised. I worked in a number of countries in the middle east and these people can turn on a dime. They will welcome you with open arms one moment and stab you in the back in the next.

The jovial nature of the occasion may let the allies drop their guard for a moment, this could prove fatal.

121 posted on 04/09/2003 12:10:01 PM PDT by John_11_25
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