>i think this has to do with 9-11 and the fact that people made a
>distinction between Saddam Hussein and the citizens of Iraq.
The March 24 Financial Times has this, in an article by Christopher Grimes:
>You go to Pennsylvania Station and see guards with machine guns, and
>it's a little unnerving," says Howard Ginsberg, who was taking a
>break from his job in Lower Manhattan to gaze over Ground Zero. "But
>you are better off with them than without them. I don't think they
>can do much more to protect us without infringeing on our rights."
>
>In a city so diverse, it is difficult to find a prevailing view of
>the war on Iraq.
>
>But no matter what their opinion of the conflict, New Yorkers view
>it through the lens of September 11.
>
>Mr Ginsberg says the World Trade Center attacks altered the way he
>sees the bombing of Baghdad.
>
>"When this happened it was a strange feeling," he says, gesturing
>towards the World Trade Center site. "For Baghdad to go through
>something similar, you feel sorry for the average Joes over there
>just trying to make a living.
>
>"We still haven't recovered and it's going to be longer for them."