[punky]

What you mention pales into insignificance when you are talking about having Saddam and his sons are your country's leaders.

If you were Iraqi you'd be dead a long time ago, with your mother, wife and daughters raped in front of you. If you were lucky, you would get away with the rapes and a beating, avoiding the wood chipper feet first.

If I was Iraqi, i'd think myself damn lucky the coalition forces came in, and some some fracas/confusion about police, on balance with Saddam/Uday/Qusay, I know what i'd rather have. However, my anger would be directed at the cause of this. The Iraqi police is filled with rebels and insurgents. They refused to hand the soldiers over at the Iraq's government's direct order. They brought this on themselves. The Iraqi government wern't happy at the action, but they understood it. A senior minister mentioned this in a phone call to Britain. However, the war in Iraq is very much a propaganda war, and it isn't only western leftist journalists stirring the s**t. Locals and middle east/Arab journalists are stirring it as well - and getting through to the locals and are very effective. The more moderate, accurate journalist, leftist or impartial isn't getting heard so the press, especially local are very much breeding the situation.