U.S. Marines Enter Basra to Cheering Crowds -- While U.S. Peace Protestors Engage in a "Gross Out" This is the crazy state of affairs in the world today. It looks to this independent reporter as though the world has been turned upside down. Iraqis cheer U.S. marines in Basra . . . . . While thousands march against the war and their peace demonstrations turn violent in Los Angeles and elsewhere across America. According to a BBC Report this morning the marines entered Basra and were applauded by Iraqis. (March 22, 2003). Similar scenes of open Iraqi support were replayed...