Bill

ABC News spent July 9 with "average people" working in Baghdad, and their stories are reported HERE. A university professor utters this ominous warning: To me, this is merely extra verifications of the "quagmire" predictions I made in these forums even before the fighting started. I've long felt that the Iraqi people would never welcome the Americans as "liberators," but would treat US forces as an "occupying army," much like the Israeli army is treated (and viewed) on the West Bank. This news report merely serves to confirm what I already felt was true.

I also note that the religious leaders are unlikely to be happy with a secular government, which puts them at odds with Bush, who has claimed he will never allow a religious government to take power. In the same story, a religious leader is attributed as saying: Again, this is exactly what Bush has vowed to prevent, and yet I've said over and over again that I too believe the majority of the people within Iraq want a religious government.

Yes, this report isn't at all scientific (and all that stuff). These are only individual Iraqis. But ABC wanted representative Iraqis, and I believe it got them.

This war ain't gonna be over by the first Tuesday in November, 2004......

== Bill