Out of context....

Some choice quotes from today's New York Times:

"Frankly, the people are beginning to lose their trust in America," he said. "Because America promised Iraq to remove the tyrant government, but now things are even worse. Some people are even beginning to wish Saddam had stayed because all the troubles erupted after his departure."
Walid al- Fartousi, 33, a fruit and vegetable vendor in Baghdad. Full story.

"Tell me," said the doctor, who asked that he not be identified, "Why do the American troops allow the looting? These people are cowards, the looters. All the soldiers have to do is fire one shot, and the looters will go away. They are cowards. And the Americans do not do this. Why?"
Chief doctor at one of Baghdad's larger hospitals, speaking about the presumed designs of the Americans on the Iraqi nation. Full story.

"This is our American liberation!" spat Ms. Khedairy, 70, as she waded through the half-burned books of her second-story library. "I never thought you would do it. I went to the American School. I believed in your moral values. And every night you bombed. Every night, I ran through the streets, an old woman in my nightgown..."
Amal al-Khedairy, whose eclectic collection of art objects, music and books--from antiquated LP recordings of Beethoven and Wagner, to collections of Turkish and Arabian music, to books on Oriental architecture and French literature-- was renown among Baghdad's intellectual inhabitants.

The 70-year-old art-collector is later quoted as promising, "We will kill them all one day, Rumsfeld and every one of them...Look at what they have done to my library." Full story.