Re: OT: US BLEW IT IN IRAQ- Wall Street Journal Reporter Finds

From: Winfield Hill (Winfield_member_at_newsguy.com)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: 10 Oct 2004 07:14:54 -0700

Fred Bloggs wrote...
>
> From Baghdad
> A Wall Street Journal Reporter's E-Mail to Friends
>
> Farnaz Fassihi, a Wall Street Journal reporter sent this report
> as an e-mail to friends.

 A truly dismal picture.

> The cops are being murdered by the dozens every day-over 700 to date
> -- and the insurgents are infiltrating their ranks. The problem is
> so serious that the U.S. military has allocated $6 million dollars
> to buy out 30,000 cops they just trained to get rid of them quietly.

 Another shocking discouraging thing we are not told about.

> One could argue that Iraq is already lost beyond salvation. For
> those of us on the ground it's hard to imagine what if any thing
> could salvage it from its violent downward spiral.

 And his analysis of the elections we so anxiously await,

> I heard an educated Iraqi say today that if Saddam Hussein were
> allowed to run for elections he would get the majority of the vote.
> This is truly sad.

> I asked a 28-year-old engineer if he and his family would participate
> in the Iraqi elections since it was the first time Iraqis could to
> some degree elect a leadership. His response summed it all: "Go and
> vote and risk being blown into pieces or followed by the insurgents
> and murdered for cooperating with the Americans? For what? To practice
> democracy? Are you joking?" 

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