"Former regime loyalists or whatever it's being called this week..."

[Khephra]

Snip............

SGT. 1ST CLASS JOHN CRAEMER, U.S. ARMY CIVIL AFFAIRS: They expect handouts. They came from a socialist regime in which it was basically everything was handed to them and they expect that to continue to happen and they don't realize that if they want to make Iraq better they need to work with us.

AMANPOUR: But this factory could employ as many as 5,000 people. Only 700 are working right now. U.S. officers know that people with jobs are less likely to join the insurgents who often pay them to attack Americans, especially in Ramadi, a bastion of Saddam support.

CRAEMER: Former regime loyalists or whatever it's being called this week are causing the problems.

AMANPOUR: Which means factories like these must get fully back online. This one was built in the '60s. In the '70s a U.S. company supplied the furnaces but years of sanctions, war, and neglect have left it with substandard raw material, ancient kiln bricks, and a lack of spare parts so it produces highly imperfect glass. Because of the violence and insecurity in Iraq, no outside companies or countries are willing to put money into it or come and upgrade the equipment.

LT. SCOTT SLAUGHTER, FLORIDA NATIONAL GUARD: This one plant symbolizes the rest of Iraq. It's old. It's run down. It hasn't been kept up like a lot of stuff in Iraq. If we can get this to work maybe we can get the rest of Iraq to work too.

more.............

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/03/asb.00.html

[rooboy]

1. "...basically everything was handed to them..."

Gee, that Saddam Hussein must have been a generous tyrant.

[neuvocat]

2. That's why he had to be thrown out then.

Saddam was killing his people with kindness.

[maddezmom]

3. Former regime loyalists or whatever it's being called this week ....

very telling. Sounds like he is sick of his own pentagon's talking points.

[Khephra]

4. Those were my exact same thoughts

and the reason why I posted it. It's really telling that he'd be so sick of the propaganda that he'd actually say that live on CNN.