[inquest]

Immediate popular reaction in Baghdad on Saturday to the loss of the U.S. space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew -- including the first Israeli in space -- was that its was God's retribution on Americans.

These Reuters types need brain enemas desperately. Just how the hell were they able to gauge "popular reaction" in a country where wearing the wrong facial expression can win you a free stay in one of Baghdad's finer torture palaces?

[Terriergal]

well, actually, since the DU's think the media is in Bush's pocket and that we *will* see teeming masses of people cheering, my bet is that this is all we're gonna get.