["The mood is changing for the worse in Umm Qasr where food and
medicine is desperately needed, . . . The Americans have moved on,
their presence marked only by the endless convoys of trucks rolling
north out of Kuwait towards Baghdad to service the occupying army
and the US-led interim administration."--"Iraqi welcome for US turns to fury," The Age (Australia),
May 5, 2003]
["American efforts to foist new rulers on the people of Iraq are
becoming increasingly grotesque. . . . Washington's failure to hold
broad-based consultations at central and local levels is provoking
resistance, sometimes armed. . . .
"In Iraq, where there are no warlords and people feel they have the
expertise to run the country themselves, the US insists on moving in
and staying."--Jonathan Steele, "Operation
Support Garner," The Guardian, May 6, 2003]
Paul Wiseman and Vivienne Walt, "Hostility
toward U.S. troops is running high in Baghdad," USA Today, May 7, 2003
Edmund L. Andrews and Susan Sachs, "Iraq's Slide Into Lawlessness Squanders Good Will for
U.S.," New York Times, May 18, 2003
Charely Reese, "The
Mists of Falsehoods," King Features Syndicate, May 23, 2003
[". . . evidence is mounting that suggests between 5,000 and 10,000
Iraqi civilians died during the US invasion."--Peter Ford, "Was
the Invasion of Iraq the Deadliest U.S. Military Campaign for
Civilians Since Vietnam?," Christian Science Monitor, May 23, 2003]
["Isn't it time we called this a resistance war in Iraq?"--Robert
Fisk, "As Tony Blair flies to meet British troops in the Gulf,
there is growing chaos and resentment in Iraq," Independent, May
28, 2003
Jo Dillon, "War is not over yet, warns US," Independent, June 29,
2003