>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!...
Ah, the Iraqis - they just don't understand. They should move to Columbus, Ohio, or Bloomington, Illinois - everything would become so much clearer.
Doug