[American Soldier]

The only people that are likely to have true loyalty to Saddam are those (1) who got lucrative positions on his staff; (2) those who have blood ties to his family or are from his village; (3) crazed Sunnis who actually enjoy watching him deal with the Kurds and Shiites in a brutal manner.

I'm not convinced that this "car mechanic" was a car mechanic. How did he know the name of an Israeli Colonel? Iraq has been caught before using officials of the central government as the subjects of "man-on-the-street" interviews, a practice which thus far the Western media has been all too happy to accomodate.

Further, even if this was a real "man-on-the-street," many Iraqis believe as many as 1 in 7 adults are paid informants for Saddam. Therefore, if you talk to them on the street they will say only what they would say to Saddam himself. I am not at all convinced the average Iraqi is happy about this.

Now, as for the Palestinians...

[justshe]

So we agree...not ALL Iraqi people are evil incarnate and deserve to be wiped off the face of the earth. Good.