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The Sushi Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 03:46 PM
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Inside the resistance (in Iraq)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/15/1060936052309.html

The United States likes to think that all it confronts in Iraq are a few die-hard Saddamists. But Paul McGeough meets a new guerilla movement with growing popular support.
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markses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 09:27 AM
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1. Unbelievable
From the article

What seems clear is that the US has not begun to grasp the depth of Iraqi resentment and continues to feed the anger, as I note following my first meeting with Ahmed.

I have just returned to my Baghdad hotel, on Abu Nuwas Street which runs along the east bank of the Tigris, when a US Humvee roars past. Blaring from a block of six big speakers strapped to its rooftop is John Mellencamp's 1980s American anthem Pink Houses: Ain't that America? You and me! Ain't that America? Something to seeeee!

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The Sushi Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 05:30 PM
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4. Imbed this Bush!
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QuietStorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 10:44 PM
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5. They truly have underestimated their little brown brothers
Edited on Tue Aug-19-03 10:45 PM by QuietStorm

now haven't they? wouldn't be the first time the DOD underestimated a non caucasian enemy. One word. VIETNAM.
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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 09:22 AM
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2. Who's Fighting Back in Iraq? - Taped radio show Boston WBUR, Great!
Edited on Sun Aug-17-03 09:31 AM by dArKeR
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sistersofmercy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 10:32 AM
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3. Bush Co. want americans via slanted news to believe..
it's just those pesky baathists refusing to come in and be our prisoners and terrioists groups who just want to martyr themselves. It's a shame that they have come to believe their own spin. Just in water pipeline somehow burst stops water in parts of Iraq NWI.
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