Iraqi exiles against Saddam. On the front page of the Inquirer yet. of course, below the fold.

Peace marches? Iraqi businessman Ali al Bayati, 46, dismisses them as PR fodder for Saddam Hussein and points to his TV. Sure enough, Hussein's satellite station is showing scenes of last month's huge marches, again and again.

Who exactly are the protesters protesting for and against? Since the Iraqi people want to be free of Saddam, that must mean they are marching for Saddam. They are marching not against war, but against George Bush.

President Bush? Europeans may disdain him, but he's "a great man," says Iraqi maintenance engineer Hayder Hamid, 40. "I feel he wants to do something for the Iraqi people this time."

Let me attempt to comprehend the rationale. The Iraqi people wish to depose Saddam, the protesters are marching for the the people of Iraq. In doing so they would quash what the Iraqi people are seeking. Makes sense to me.

Look through their eyes, and Hussein is an unspeakably evil murderer and torturer who must be stopped.

In a way he is worse than Hitler, because in addition to killing others, "he fights his own people, kills his people, every day," says former Iraqi teacher Alya, 52, a London community worker who asked that only her first name be used.<i>

If Bush=Hitler and Saddam is worse than Hitler, I guess Bush is better than Saddam.

"We will pray for a minimum of casualties; war is never clean," said Yasser Alaskary, 22, a London medical student. But still, he said, the prospect of U.S. and British forces invading Iraq and toppling Hussein seems "too good to be true."

There will be some civilian casualties, there always is. The US will do everything within its power to minimize them. We have the best equipment and the best men and women.