I, along with the rest of the pro-liberation ranks, could have told you months ago that deposing Saddam Hussein is in the interests of Iraqis - especially those who are far enough away from the Baghdad Butcher to reason without paralyzing fear:

Two leaders of the Iraqi exile community here in the Unites States say Saddam deliberately placed the Fedayeen Saddam-- a group of Saddam's loyal thugs -- in the cities of Karbala and Basra to maintain his brutal grip on power.

"Fedayeen Saddam have full authority," said Sheik Sadiq Khadem Mohammed, an Iraqi Shiite exile. "Since they start this organization to challenge Shia movement, they have full authority on the streets. They arrest. They torture. They kill in the streets and everyone knows about that."

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Right now, Shiite leaders in exile say they are afraid this could happen again.

"They have no confidence that the Iraqi regime will be demolished this time because of the experience of 1991, so they are scared to say some words until now against the regime because maybe tomorrow the regime will come back again and get revenge on them," said Sheik Fidhel Al Sahlani, a Shiite Iraqi exile.

And for those in the anti-liberation cadre who admit to being without any alternative solution but one opposed to military action:

"We welcome the war because Saddam is a dictator," Mohammed said. "You cannot take him out of the power but by force that is for sure. We hope the war will be the process for peace in Iraq."

protesters: screaming, obstructing, defecating and complaining for, as Glenn Reynolds put it, "imaginary Arabs."