Here is an interesting read...

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Thanks, Chris, for pointing me back in this direction...found this article happenchance...



BBC NEWS



Why interesting?



By Kim Ghattas

BBC correspondent in Damascus



"Even Iraqis aren't immune to angry Syrians. Just before the fall of Baghdad, I was standing by the side of the road talking to some Iraqis who were telling me how much they hated Saddam Hussein and wanted to see him go.



They said it didn't matter if the US was waging the war because of Iraq's oil - under Saddam they had never profited from the oil gains anyway, and they didn't have any freedom.



Maybe the Americans would take the oil, but at least they would give Iraqis their freedom.



All of a sudden, a Syrian man came up to us screaming. How dare they criticise a leader who was fighting against the imperialistic troops? How could they allow the Americans into their country?





'Traitor'





The Iraqis started screaming back, saying Arabs had never done anything for the Iraqis, never said anything about Saddam killing his people by the thousands, and now anti-war protesters around the world were brandishing posters of Saddam. The Iraqis were furious.



But then Baghdad fell without much of a fight and the Syrians were furious. How dare Saddam give up like that? Where were the gates of hell he had promised to the Americans?



Now there are rumours every day that wanted senior Iraqi officials are hiding in Syria. Syria is probably the best way out - better than any of Iraq's neighbours where they would walk straight into the arms of the Americans, or in the case of Iran, into the arms of their worst enemy.



A very lonely, sad-looking Mohammed al-Douri, Iraq's man at the UN, is now staying in my hotel in Damascus, but I haven't seen any wanted Iraqis here yet.



And it may not be such a good idea for Saddam and his followers to head to Syria anyway. One man I spoke to in Damascus said that the rumours about Saddam fleeing to Syria were nonsense.



Saddam, he said, was a traitor for not fighting the Americans and if he even dared showed up at the Syrian border he would be shot immediately for betraying the Arab cause."



So much for Arab Unity.

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This artice really expresses indirectly the struggle of trying to bring stability to both the Middle East and Iraq. In Iraq alone the difficulty in establishing a government that pleases everyone is going to be very very hard.

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