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[Bluegrass Federalist]

Excellent article. I wish FNC would put up a map highlighting that 1% area in which the attacks are taking place. That gives a clearly different perspective.

[kevkrom]

THERE are two Iraqs today: One as portrayed by those in America and Europe who wish to use it as a means of damaging Bush and Blair, and the other as it really exists, home to 24 million people with many hopes and aspirations and, naturally, some anxiety about the future.

Bump.

[eureka!]

Sad that such facts get so little play. A pox on the dishonest houses of the presstitutes...

[sandydipper]

Thank You - Thank You!!

[Sergio]

Great article to read first thing in the morning. Thanks for posting.

[noDixieCan]

BTTT

[God luvs America]

Amazing huh, how the press tries to skew everyone's views...like I've always said, it's not Freedom of the Press its' free reign of the press!

[alloysteel]

The Iraqis themselves would be the conclusive opinion on whether things are [personally] better or worse than the situation before the fall of Saddam. In the parts of Germany that were liberated (at least by the British and Americans) in WW II, the local civilians, and most if not all the regular German army that surrendered, greeted the columns with relief and and some cases, jubilation. They were finally free of a nightmare, even though the near future offered little but hardship and misery. It was still a future in which they themselves could shape in some way. But the internal oppressors, the Nazi civilians who enforced the edicts from Berlin, often suffered a quite ignominious fate at the hands of their neighbors, unless they were captured by the liberators first.

So in a way, the civilian Iraqis ARE worse off, in a material sense, but infinitely better off in a personal sense. The material situation is rapidly improving, in some cases already better than the almost uniform deprivation everybody was subject to under Saddam, and with the added benefit that they may complain of their situation, something not looked upon warmly on March 1, 2003.

[Pokey78]

BTTT

[rudypoot]

Ping

[Coop]

Thanks very much for posting this excellent news.

[finnman69]

"After we have aired our grievances we remember the essential point: Saddam is gone," says Mohsen Saleh, a geologist in Baghdad. "A man who is cured of cancer does not complain about a common cold."

[MEG33]

Thanks for adding some balance!

[Tunehead54]

"Business is good," says Hashem Yassin, one florist. "In the past, we sold a lot of flowers for funerals and placement on tombs. Now we sell for weddings, birthday parties and gifts of friendship."

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That seems to be an improvement! Good news bump.

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[centurion316]

Thanks for posting this. I received an email of this article today from a friend who is an Assistant Division Commander for one of the divisions serving in Iraq. He sent it along with the comment:

this article reflects the reality that I see everyday

He went on to observe that we are losing the information war. The "we" that he refers to is the United States of America, and "we" are losing it to the usual crowd of America haters: The elite media, the Democrat Party, and don't forget, the French.

[js1138]

So what about the power in Baghdad? Are the repairs completed, and if so when? I didn't see any announcement.