Some Iraqis still like Saddam....and now Osama bin Laden also.

[kentuck]

http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=030917&cat=news&st=newsiraqfallujadc

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"Although unorganized and without leadership, the Iraqi resistance is a ball of fire in America's face that will bring its end in Iraq," said the 53-year-old cleric, whose sermons draw thousands in the main Badawi mosque, one of over 70 mosques in the center of Falluja.

The cleric said growing numbers of young men in Falluja were influenced by bin Laden, the fugitive Saudi militant behind the shadowy al Qaeda network blamed for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

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Many locals recall a history of resistance to foreign conquerors, saying the Americans would meet the fate of their predecessors.

"This is the 21st fall of Baghdad and at every turn the invaders were repulsed here at the heart of Arab world," said Ahmad Said, a former army officer in Saddam's now-defunct army.

For many of Falluja's residents, Saddam remains an Arab warrior who fought for Iraq's glory.

"It's a crime that President Saddam should go. He was everything for us, our father who gave us everything," Mohammad Shaker said.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Our fault

If we'd gone in with a plan, and immediately set up security and started working on infrastructure, we wouldn't be in this mess. Of course, if we hadn't gone in at all, that would have been even better, from the standpoint of stopping the spread of terror and the terrorists' message.

[Styles]

2. not exactly unexpected...

Sadaam had the balls to defy the US not once but twice now, and both times has managed to keep his ass attached, and Osama managed to do something that hasn't been done in the past century - attacked the US mainland.

Like them or hate them... these two men have demonstrated more balls and skill then any other non-US flag totting country in recent history... and they both made it away with their lives...

If they were Americans going after a US enemy... they would have been given a metal or trophy or something.

[NNN0LHI]

3. When one is sick, hungry, thirsty, pissed, etc., its any port in a storm