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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/weekinreview/16BURN.html
Looking at the Enemy as a Liberator
(New York Times) John F. Burns - Every day, a flood of battered cars and buses arrives in Amman, bearing migrants from Iraq. Many are men of military age seeking to escape being drafted into Saddam Hussein's battalions. The message from Iraqis who fled Iraq is this: the conflict should be short. American bombs and missiles should fall on Hussein's palaces and Republican Guards and secret police headquarters, not on civilians. Care should be taken not to obliterate the bridges and power stations and water-pumping plants that were bombed in 1991. And America should know that it would become the enemy of all Iraqis - and Muslims - if it prolonged its military dominion in Iraq beyond the time necessary to dismantle the old regime.