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[Life in Bush's America] Iraqis Polled say it is Okay to Blow US and UK Troops Up: LONDON (Reuters) - Forty-five percent of Iraqis believe attacks on U.S. and British troops are justified, according to a secret poll said to have been commissioned by British defense leaders and cited by The Sunday Telegraph.

[Infinite Wisdom] Iraqis Growing Weary of Occupation: Iraqis should not only be able to vote on the recently drafted constitution, but they also should be able to vote on whether the occupying armies ought to leave. If Iraqis now want foreign forces out of their country and now believe their presence is not enhancing the security situation, then there is no justification for keeping the foreign troops there anymore. 

 [A Little Touch of Harry in the Night...] We'll be greeted as liberators, right Dick?: Forty-five percent of Iraqis believe attacks on U.S. and British troops are justified, according to a secret poll said to have been commissioned by British defense leaders and cited by The Sunday Telegraph.

 [Dailywarnews.blogspot.com] Today in Iraq: OPINION: The Evolution of the Iraq War: We know by now that there was precious little "intelligent design" at work in our occupation of Iraq, although the original military attacks were spectacularly accomplished. Our policy moved from 1) believing that the Iraqis would welcome us as liberators and immediately adopt democracy, despite their bitter history, to 2) amazement, finally bordering on despair, over the internal breakup of the country, to 3) the U.S. military command's lowering of expectations for what can be accomplished in that strange and hostile land, to 4) the genuine, if perhaps impossible, creation of an elected and constitutional government that would give "cover" to American withdrawal and leave some mutant form of united Iraq behind, no matter what it might choose to do in the future.

 [News.bbc.co.uk] BBC NEWS | In Depth | Reporters' Log: At war in Iraq: Kurdish Peshmurga guerrillas manning the last checkpoint on the Kurdish side, said that Iraqi troops holding hilltop positions immediately to the west had blocked the road and were preventing anybody getting through in either direction.

 [Andrewsullivan.com] www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish: The danger to his own reputation, and, in the case of an elective magistrate, to his political existence, from betraying a spirit of favoritism, or an unbecoming pursuit of popularity, to the observation of a body whose opinion would have great weight in forming that of the public, could not fail to operate as a barrier to the one and to the other. He would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure.My italics.

[Buzzmachine.com] BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis: People who've considered themselves conservative Republicans their whole lives, like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, are now routinely called "neocons." Democrats who support the war effort get called "neocons." People who voted for Gore who think Iraq was the right thing to do are called "neocons." Pretty much anybody who thinks that America needed to take out Saddam Hussein and start the process of reforming the thug-regimes of the Middle East, or who thinks the liberal democratic state of Israel has a right to exist and is not the moral equivalent of Yassir Arafat's terrorist-regime, is now dubbed a "neocon."

[Dahrjamailiraq.com] Iraq Dispatches: What They’re Not Telling You About the “Election”: Regardless of what happens in the elections, for at least the next year during which the newly elected National Assembly writes a constitution and Iraqis vote for a new government, the Bush administration is going to control the largest pot of money available in Iraq (the $24 billion in U.S. taxpayer money allocated for the reconstruction), the largest military and the rules governing Iraq's economy. Both the money and the rules will, in turn, be overseen by U.S.-appointed auditors and inspector generals who sit in every Iraqi ministry with five-year terms and sweeping authority over contracts and regulations.

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