from SLATE's on-line survey of major US newspapers:
>The Los Angeles Times has two reporters who show the benefit of
being a unilateral (that is, not embedded): They say that "order
has begun to break down" in the border town Safwan, which just a
few days ago gained a bit of fame when villagers were filmed
hanging with GIs and tearing down Saddam posters. "We need the
Americans to come and bring food," said one resident. "We need
the electricity fixed, we need someone to police us."
>The Journal says that in "sharply contrast" to expectations, many
Iraqis in largely anti-Saddam southern Iraq aren't excited about
the arrival of GIs. "We hate you. You are all criminals," said
one tailor, as he cradled a kid on his lap. The Pentagon is
hoping that an imminent influx of humanitarian aid will cool
those feelings.<
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Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
stop the war now!
