[lbo-talk] Iraqis reject occupation... things not looking so rosy for "liberators"

[cuito61 at onebox.com]

Exasperated US military officials tried to hamper the media from covering new demonstrations in Baghdad while some 20,000 people in the Shiite bastion of Nassiriya railed against a US-staged meeting on Iraq’s future. . . Visibly angered US military officials sought to distance the media from the protest, moving reporters and cameras about 30 metres from the barbed-wired entrance to the hotel. “We want you to pull back to the back of the hotel because they (the Iraqis) are only performing because the media are here,” said a marine colonel who wore the name Zarcone but would not give his first name or title: 
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_16-4-2003_pg7_12

US Blamed for Failure to Stop Sacking of Museum 
In Iraq itself, art experts and ordinary demonstrators made clear they were far angrier at President George Bush than they were at the looters, noting that the only building US forces seemed genuinely interested in protecting was the Ministry of Oil:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0414-07.htm

At least 10 people were killed and scores wounded in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul when US troops fired on a crowd angered by a speech by the new US-backed governor, witnesses reported:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0415-12.htm

Library Books, Letters and Priceless Documents are Set Ablaze in Final Chapter of the Sacking of Baghdad:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0415-07.htm

Now Free to Protest, Iraqis Complain About Americans:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0416-03.htm

US troops accused of carnage:
United States troops opened fire on a crowd hostile to the new 
pro-American governor in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul yesterday, 
killing at least 10 people and injuring as many as 100, witnesses and 
doctors said.The shooting overshadowed the start of US-brokered talks 
aimed at sketching out a post-Saddam Iraq:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/16/1050172608832.html

PRIVATIZATION IN DISGUISE
The American blueprint for Iraq goes far beyond rebuilding infrastructure, envisioning a fully privatized and foreign-owned country:
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15638

Resentment, gunfire greets U.S. forces in Tikrit:
http://www.adn.com/24hour/iraq/story/854999p-5989386c.html