"... a chance of liberty."

There is a reason why the Drudge Report is the first place I go on the web for news stories. The ace gumshoe actually found a non-anti-war dispatch on UK's Marxist 'The Guardian' web site. (I pored over their home page and special "War in Iraq" page with nary a trace of a link to it.)

And what a dispatch it is. The compellingly tearful words of Iraqi civilian Ajami Saadoun Khlis to the US Marines breezing through Safwan on their way to Baghdad: "You just arrived. You're late. What took you so long?" He goes on, "God help you become victorious. I want to say hello to Bush, to shake his hand. We came out of the grave."

The story goes on to describe what happened in this town after the US abandoned the Iraqis after the Gulf War under pressure from the "international coalition:" Revenge killings. Marine Sergeant Jason Lewis of Denver summed up the situation nicely saying, "Hopefully this time we'll do it right, and give these Iraqis a chance of liberty."