Democratic Underground - What in particular would you like me to take note of?

Shaker is an interesting fellow, but I don't see how he helps your argument (whatever that is).

There are a few parts in that piece that I find interesting. I will share them, then you can point out what you had in mind.

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Ali sat cross-legged on a rug against the wall, and looked directly at me. “Before this war, I was waiting for the Americans to come—and now I feel sort of cheated. All this talk about rebuilding Iraq, and all we see is a couple of light coats of paint. And they say they renovated Iraq.”

Samir, the unemployed younger brother, spoke in darker tones, with a faint smile. He had never had any illusions. “No enemy loves his enemy. We know very well that the Americans don’t intend us any good.”

The Americans had at least got rid of Saddam, I observed. “That’s not enough,” Ali said. “Now things are worse. We can’t go outside at four in the morning, as before.”

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It was a few weeks later, on March 28th, that Moqtada’s uprising began, and Sadr City exploded in days and nights of firefights between militiamen and American soldiers. I spoke with the doctor by phone. He had spent days trapped at home, unable to go to the morgue, while the uprising continued. Twelve of his friends in the neighborhood had died in crossfire. His brothers, Ali and Samir, wanted to join the Mahdi Army and fight the Americans, but he had stopped them. The scale of the violence shocked him, but not its outbreak, which he had seen coming. The bravery of the young militiamen, standing up to tanks with small arms, impressed him, and though he deplored their tactics, he sympathized with their goal—“real Islamic democracy.

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The bit about N.D.I. "missionaries" was quiant, but the author would have been well to have said anything at all about the real nature of the typical results of these organizations as a matter of foreign policy, the coup attempts against against Chavez & Aristide, for example.

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