[lbo-talk] Iraqi public opinion

[Maria Gilmore]

Something I think I heard Christian Parenti say on Doug's show yesterday
was, a big reason Iraqis are not eager to take up arms as a people against
their occupation would be the simple fact that one way or another their
society has been at war for over 20 years now.  They've had enough of it.
That also helps explain the pleas to Americans to take the oil, just get the
power back on and clean water flowing and some semblence of order and
then...leave them alone!...