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   ....[1]Hugh Hewitt interview of Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma. Senator
   Inhofe returned from his 11^th trip to Iraq, and he has some
   interesting observations from Iraqis.

     HH: Let's talk a little bit about the new defense minister, Jassin,
     Senator Inhofe. How's he strike you? Is he middle aged? Is he
     experienced in military matters?
     JI: Yeah, he's very experienced. He's a general. He is a career
     military guy, and he's tough as he can be. And he came out with all
     kinds of wild things. I probably shouldn't tell you this...
     HH: Oh, go ahead.
     JI: But...and this is so funny when it happened. I was talking to
     him through an interpretor, and I didn't know whether he could
     speak English. And I finally got to the point where I said look,
     our big problem is the media, the media back in the United States,
     because they're lying to the people of America. All of a sudden, in
     clear English, he said I hate CNN.

   It seems it's universal.
   And the Iraqi's feelings about the kiling of Zarqawi?

     JI: Osama was Saudi, and we don't know where this guy, Muhajir is
     from, but he's not an Iraqi. But some of the things that Zarqawi
     was doing, this Abel Jassim that you're going to be real impressed
     with, their defense minister, he was telling me some of the things
     he did. He said that he would send letters in a community to the
     Shiite homes, warn them to move away from the Sunni areas. And as
     they left the house, he'd shoot them all down, the whole family.
     This guy is...in fact, the defense minister told me that the people
     of Iraq were...getting Zarqawi was a bigger deal than getting
     Saddam Hussein.

   HH: What about the reports you've received on the Haditha incident?
   JI: Well, this is kind of interesting. As the more we look into it,
   and I'm not really the one looking into it, the more that comes out,
   are misrepresentations of things that may have happened a year ago, or
   happened six months ago, and they kind of put them all together in
   this one area, Haditha. Now another interesting thing that was said by
   Abdel Jassim, he said Haditha is a bigger story back in the United
   States than it is here. I asked him about it, and he said oh, it's not
   a big story here. And that's one thing that I think we need to know
   over here. We keep conjuring these things up as if they're big
   stories, but they're not over there. You want to know another one that
   isn't, Mr. Hewitt?
   HH: Yes.
   JI: All this thing about reconciliation that the Democrats talk about,
   oh, they're going to have to reconciliate between the Sunnis and the
   Shiias, and all that, well, the defense minister said that that is
   another American issue, that the reconciliation has already taking
   place, and we are Iraqis first. Now I didn't believe that, and so I
   stopped at...some...it's kind of a monument they have to the unknown
   soldier, and there were 9 honor guard people, very sharp soldiers
   standing there, and through an interpretor, I asked the guy that was
   leading that group, I asked him the question about the Shiias and the
   Sunnis. He said no, that's not...I'm a Sunni, my wife is a Shiia, and
   I can't tell you...I've spent the last nine days with these eight
   guys. I don't know which one is a Shiia, and which one's a Sunni.
   We're all Iraqis. And again, he claims that's an American issue, and I
   believe it is.There's much more. Don't miss reading the entire
   interview. You'll come away with a completely different view of what's
   going on in Iraq.
   Isn't that strange? BTW, the Iraqi Security Forces have surpassed
   265,000 now, and they control more than 60% of the bases in Iraq.
   Their defense minister believes the coalition will have less than
   100,000 troops in country by the end of this year.(Hat tip to
   [2]Discerning Texan.)

References

   1. http://www.radioblogger.com/#001689
   2. http://discerningtexan.blogspot.com/2006/06/iraq-america-rarely-sees.html