I know a 30 - 35 year old Iragi gentleman who came to our area to get an education and has since gone on to become a US citizen. He's getting ready to go back to Iraqi to see first hand the reports he is getting from friends and family. Also is is hoping to have better success in getting his wife admitted to the US. I don't know him well but here are some of the things he has told me:

At 4am on the morning of the invasion Saddam contacted the Iraqi military authorites at the Bagdad Airport and told them to disperse. And that that wea the last time anyone heard officially heard from Saddam in Iraq. Iraqi's don't believe the US has Saddam in custody.

The people there are well aware of the 'fact' that Saddam was on the CIA payroll and that the CIA assisted him in taking control of Iraq to begin with.

Not only are the Iraqi's becoming disillusioned with the US occuping forces but also, if free elections don't begin when promised the nation will unite to revolt against the US despite their factional differences.

He also said that 3 days after 11 Sept, the FBI contacted him inquiring as to whether he had been harrassed in any way.

Those are the highlights, make what you will of it.

As for me, our leaders have started something they could never win and will not win, no matter how many American(& coalition lads) soldiers we sacrifice while further bankrupting the nation they claim to love. And it doesn't matter whether Kerry is the President because he is acceptable to the US and/or International oligarchy, or he would have been deep 6'ed like Howard Dean. I have always voted against Dean for Governor and would have voted against him for Prez. Nor have I voted for Shrub or his daddy. Despite the rhetoric, America is not run be We the People, let alone for us.

Sad ain't it!