I heard Arthur Kent, one-time "somebody", on Larry King Saturday night, and he made the statement that securing the peace in Iraq would be difficult without French and Russian cooperation because "France and Russia are more popular in Iraq than the United States." I emailed Larry and said that France and Russia were certainly more popular among the ruling elite of Iraq, but as for the Iraqi people, who really knows what they think, since no one has been able to ask them in over 25 years. After viewing the scenes from central Baghdad today, I'd like to see Arthur Kent make that statement again in the heart of Baghdad. The "Iraqi Street" seems to have refuted him.