US Losing Battle for Hearts in Iraq: Human Shield

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US Losing Battle for Hearts in Iraq: Human Shield

An Australian human shield said Wednesday the United States was losing the battle for the hearts and minds of Iraqi people.

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An Australian human shield said Wednesday the United States was losing the battle for the hearts and minds of Iraqi people.

According to the Australian Associated Press, Donna Mulhearn, a 34-year-old human shield from Sydney, fled to Jordan after stationed at a food silo north of Baghdad for six weeks. She told the Australian Broadcast Corporation saying the attitude of the Iraqi people changed during the recent days.

"They've had enough. The Iraqi people are very, very angry," she told the radio from her hotel in Jordan and added "What I witnessed in the last 10 days in Baghdad was a definite shift in attitude."

Mulhearn said "Iraqi families who are quite passive or quite neutral towards America and quite indifferent to (Iraqi President)Saddam Hussein, they now are fully, fully supportive of the Iraqi government. They have developed this anger and bitterness towards the United States that did not exist a week ago."

Her judgment gave a devastating blow to the US plan to set a new government in Iraq after toppling Saddam Hussein. She said "If America is having a battle for the hearts and minds then they are losing, big time."

Mulhearn said bombing raids were killing children and destroying families, and creating chaos and suffering "that you would not believe."

She said she was determined to meet with Prime Minister John Howard on her return to Australia to share her experiences in Baghdad and urge him to withdraw Australian troops.

She explained she left Baghdad because she had lost the ability to communicate with the outside world and could not protect Iraqi people from crossfire in a bloody ground war.

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