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if America really wants to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, it only has to open up Saddam's palaces to his former subjects.

"Many Iraqis still love Saddam," Salih said. "But if they saw what we have seen, they would know he cheated them."

Sounds like a priority to me . . . I took it for granted that that was being done!

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He tortured them and killed them by the thousands, but the Iraqi mindset is such that if they see that Saddam cheated them on a money deal, the entire population will turn out to hunt him down. It's all about the baksheesh in that part of the world.