A tribute to Arab supporters of Iraq war and occupation in the Washington Post. (Warning: it is sad; not a dry eye in the room. And notice how Young refers to the devastation of Iraq as "a bureaucratic US" mistake. He probably would refer to the French colonization of Algeria as a "bureaucratic French mistake".) (Amer sent me this on this piece: "Shadid should have titled the article "arabs who bet on the wrong horse",I am annoyed that he makes it look like khalil and na`mat are the representatives of democracy in the arab world, they never fought for it
until the wave of us invasions...")