Salon.com News | Waiting for the command to start killing Americans: "'Here is the problem,' Abu Ali says. It is later, after iftar, and we're sitting outside to make the most of the cool evening. While we talk, an apparently nocturnal rooster crows now and then down the street. 'Before the war,' says Abu Ali, 'Americans said, 'Our problem is with Saddam and his closest senior officials.' We Iraqis also had the same problem with them. But when the Americans made the issue general and fired all the Baathists, they basically were saying, 'Go fight for Saddam.'' "

Interesting story in Salon about the frustration many Iraqis have with the american occupation. This reporter is saying that many Shiites (supposedly the ones who love us) want to go kill Americans to prod them into taking care of business. Others, as the quote above shows, say that dismissing all Baathists as Saddam lovers was a mistake. Many of them hated Saddam too. If we lose the Shiites, we may be in deep.