>Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> Independent (London) - November 15, 2004
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>> A city lies in ruins, along with the lives of the wretched survivors
>>
>> By Michael Georgy in Fallujah and Kim Sengupta
>
>Wow! That will sure get the water running.
>
>Carrol
>
>Iraqi public opinion Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:33:28
>
>Christian Parenti, freshly back from a visit to Baghdad, just said on my
>radio show that Iraqis aren't happy with the occupation, but most not to
>the point of taking up arms against it. He also said that he was
>frequently told: "Take our oil. You want it, take it. Just give us
>electricity, water, and basic security." Later, off air, he said that a
>(Coxian) U.S. pullout at this stage would result in total chaos. The
>position of the Iraqi Communist Workers Party, one of the rare secular
>leftist outfits left in the country, is for the UN to take over from the
>U.S. - with no U.S. involvement at all. - Doug
I suppose your point in dredging up a 15-month-old quote is to prove how wrong CP & I were, but, unlike you, I don't aspire to being a stopped clock. When I interviewed CP last week, he said that there was considerable good will towards the U.S. in the early months after the invasion - a lot of Iraqis really hated Saddam Hussein, you know - but that has since turned into the opposite, thanks to brutal treatment and failed reconstruction. Check out CP's excellent new book, The Freedom, for more.
Doug