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> The Iraqis' accounts have not been verified, but the anger in their
> telling served to reinforce the feeling among Iraqis here that
> private security companies care little for Iraqi lives. In a war
> where perceptions are paramount, the effect is poisonous.
A professor could turn this little paragraph into an entire seminar on ideology.
Doug