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Naomi Klein deserves credit for being among the first to report how the United States has been privatizing the Iraqi economy without any legal authority to do so. But her analysis of the Iraqi resistance is wrong. In her October 18 "Lookout" column, Klein at least qualifies her September 13 defense of Muqtada al-Sadr, the young leader of Shiite insurgents, by calling out his "dangerous fundamentalism." But she still sticks to her claim that his militia's resistance "represents the overwhelmingly mainstream sentiment in Iraq."
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