3/29 I don't like this suicide car bomber killing at all. Would Iraq
become a Palestine, but 5 times the size?
\_ The scary thing about this war is that there have been already
many reports that the population of the Southern Iraq is not as
welcoming towards the US troops as expected. For example, one of
Iraq's Ayatollas has already issued a fatwa to fight the coalition
troops. Yesterday, there was a report on ABC news about how those
trucks with humanitarian aid in the Southern Iraq were being sacked
by a mob before reaching their destination. I was shocked to hear a
guy from the crowd yell "We hate Americans!" to a reporter's
question about what he thinks about Americans. The answer was yelled
back so odiously that I think he really meant it. And we thought
that they (specially Shiites in the South) can't wait to be
liberated from Saddam's regime. However, I changed slightly my
pessimistic outlook after this was followed by a tragic story where
a bunch of Iraqi civilians who were traveling in a car were killed
by the US soldiers who mistook them for terrorists. After the
burial, their relatives told that they forgive the soldiers (who by
the way, offered apologies and also helped to bury the dead) since
they understand the difficult times they're living in. I thought
that was very touching.
\_ If you were some pro-saddam fedayeen you'd take the American
food and then scream into the camera how you hated Americans,
too. Why do you take that stuff so seriously? Once it's all
over and the thugs are wiped out and powerless you'll see what
the Iraqi people think for real, good and bad. |
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