A forlorn placard at the entrance to the coalition's headquarters in Baghdad still asks passing American soldiers: "What have you done today to help Iraqis?" Such friendly language is getting rarer. Ricardo Sanchez, the top American general in Iraq, used the word "enemies" nine times at a press conference this week. Iraqis-who, according to American generals, have endured ten times as many casualties as coalition troops-often use similar terms for Americans. The pictures of Fallujah's dead and injured, beamed into homes via satellite, have turned many undecided Iraqis against America's mission. Few now care to recall that they have satellite dishes only thanks to America. Banners hang from Baghdad's main Sunni mosque, denouncing America's "Zionist" plans. Its loudspeakers bellow out sermons damning the Americans for slaughtering Iraqi women and children and humiliating their menfolk. "If we said anything different, the people would kill us," explains its imam.
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