Some in Iraq Find Hope in Attacks on U.S.

[Khephra]

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- They sweated for hours in the searing heat. Many were grim-faced, some resentful, even angry. There was talk of revenge, and no hint of gratitude.

"Do you see our humiliation?" said Abu el-Hakim, a colonel in Saddam Hussein's defeated army, as he stood in a long line of fellow officers to collect a one-time $100 payment from U.S. coalition authorities.

"These Americans only deserve our rocket-propelled grenades, nothing else," he said, referring to the weapon of choice of Iraqi insurgents attacking U.S. troops.

Iraq's U.S.-led administration speaks with confidence about the country's future: democratic rule, a vibrant economy and an active civil society. But many in this Arab nation of 24 million people are unable to look that far ahead, still caught up in the bitterness and heartache that came with defeat.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-defiant-in-defeat,0,1560550.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[MyDogSpot]

1. This is Bush's legacy for us

thanks to his preemptive illegal invasion.

[jamesinca]

2. And Bush does not care on bit.

I think it would be nice if one of his daughters were to enlist in the infantry or some unit in Iraq. They do things to spite and embarrass their dad all the time, why not this. Do you think if Babs or Jenna were there with the 3rd infantry, this shit would end tommorrow?

[NYC]

3. No.

I don't think he cares about them, either.

[Flubadubya]

4. Interesting clip on ABC news yesterday...

A military man was threatening a bunch of Iraqi citizens warning them if they did not "out" the "bad guy" that the soldiers would come back and destroy all their homes with their tanks.

That's really winning the "peace" and the "hearts and minds" of these people, isn't it?