"Newps" wrote in message
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Talk to any grunt Private from the US Army home on leave and they will
tell you that every single average Iraqi is thrilled beyond belief that
we did this for them.

I'm sure they are after being on the **** end of the stick for so
long...but, as you said, those are the "average" (whats the Arab equivalent
for Joe Doaks??) people.

Learning to live under liberty as an independant and self-directed people is
not going to be easy, just as Eastern Europe is showing us now, over a dozen
years after the Soviet collapse. All too many there want to run home to
Mama.

I hope they can pull it off -- it might snowball through the region like
Europe did in the late 80's and early 90's.


Tom Sixkiller wrote:

"Tony Cox" wrote in message
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As for the Iraqis, they are 70% vs. 29%, which is a
statistic many of the moaners would do well to remember.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...wterr317 .xml

I wonder how many of those 29% were the ones who got bounced from their
positions of power and privilege?