Not at all like Vietnam, no...

"Given the weak performance of Iraqi forces, any major withdrawal of American troops for at least a decade would invite chaos, a senior Interior Ministry official, whose name could not be used, said in an interview last week.

South of Baghdad, where American troops are still trying to drive out insurgents after the recent offensive in Falluja, American officers warn their own troops to be prepared to "duck and cover" to avoid stray shots fired by Iraqi recruits."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/30/international/middleeast/30police.html?hp&ex=1101877200&en=7d32e130127ed63c&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Hmm, didn't we have a couple of puppet governments there too that were widely loved? Why if it's ours, isn't it a puppet or a quisling?

Something you figured all along...

VITAL SIGNS
Remedies: And It Doesn't Taste Bad, Either
By JOHN O'NEIL

"In a small new study, the chemical that makes chocolate a mild stimulant outperformed codeine in suppressing coughs."

Child Rearing: A Stroller, for Sounder Sleep
By JOHN O'NEIL

"More time outside for baby in the afternoon goes along with more quiet time at night, according to a British study that will appear in the December issue of The Journal of Sleep Research."

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BOOKS OF THE TIMES | 'J. G. BALLARD: QUOTES'
Aiming for Life's Jugular in Deadly Verbal Darts
By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH
J. G. BALLARD
Quotes
Edited by V. Vale and Mike Ryan
Illustrated. 414 pages. RE/Search. $19.99.

"A good 25 years ago the entertainer Tiny Tim told a reporter that he believed everything he read in the supermarket tabloids, because eventually it would all happen. In 1987 the British writer J. G. Ballard declared, 'Sooner or later all Science Fiction comes true.'"

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/01/books/01stra.html?pagewanted=print&position=