“The reporter interviewed someone from ‘fedayeen saddam’ he said that he is in Mosul to ‘kill the Americans and kill anybody who does not fight the Americans’, there in one short sentence you have the whole situation in Basra, and most probably many Iraqi cities, explained.” Salaam Pax is back, with a backlog of blogs written during the Coaliation assault on Baghdad. He describes elation at being finally free of Saddam, but reminds us that “War sucks big time. Don’t let yourself ever be talked into having one waged in the name of your freedom.” —A Post from Baghdad StationWhere is Raed?)