from SLATE's news summary: >The LA [TIMES] travels to Saddam's birthplace, the village of Auja, which the military has surrounded with barbed-wire and checkpoints. One officer explains to the Times that residents "have a level of security most people don't have. Once they get their ID cards, they are free to come and go. You could compare it to one of those gated communities." The Times deadpans, "It's not every gated community that has U.S. soldiers registering residents, photographing them and taking their thumbprints." <
It sure seems as if the US has learned how to successfully occupy a country from its ally Israel. Jim
