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US Troops should do Iraq a favor and clean out this rat's nest.
These are Saddam loyalists and unsurrendered enemies trying to stir up hostilities among the locals...hoping for the failure of a free and democratic govt in Iraq.

They are a minority who want to screw up the new Iraq. Americans will weed them out with the help of other Iraqis.

IMHO, you guys have it right. There were over 1/2 million members of the Ba'ath Party and its various police and political enforcement organizations. We haven't killed them all, nor have all of them run away, nor have we found them all and removed them from positions of power and influence. They are bound to resent us and try to cause trouble.

And there is another factor. As the folks on the receiving end of 30 years of discrimination from Saddam's largely secular and Sunni Arab Regiem, there must be plenty of Shi'ites just itching to give them "their turn in the barrel." Funny how some oppressed people can't wait to become the oppressors themselves. As far as the Allies are perceived as obsticles to this program of getting back at their enemies, we will be unwelcome.

VietVet