Party in Iraq!
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pr2 : My take on it ...
Obviously, we're not supposed to suspect that many Iraqis don't view us as liberators. :D The staged footage of US troops assisting a half-dozen Iraqis in pulling down that statue in Baghdad is just too fresh in everyone's minds here.
Showing the kinds of images that you're talking about wouldn't fit with the party line - i.e. that the people attacking Americans in Iraq are Baathist regime remnants who are clinging to the hope that Saddam will return to power. The administration wants everyone to believe this lie as it allows the public to cling to the notion that, once we nab him or tease some of his dna out of a mound of rubble, these regime remnants will hand in their automatic weapons and rpg's and settle down to wait quietly until we set up a puppet government and pull most of the troops out (except for the ones stationed at the US military bases that our pet gubment is going to allow us to keep in perpetuity).
The alternative would be to dehumanize the Iraqis in the eyes of the American public in the same manner that the powers-that-be spent a couple of decades dehumanizing the Palestinians.
If they could succeed in making Americans view Iraqis as bloodthirsty, crazy animals (how many Americans view Palestinians these days), then they could safely show us some of what's actually going on in terms of grassroots anti-US sentiment in Iraq.