WELL WRITTEN ARTICLE in the Kansas City Star about the balance between occupation and reconstruction.

Increasingly, Iraq's American occupiers are fighting a more subtle war: one against rising expectations. And the people of this nation, savaged by decades of dictatorship, war and international sanctions, are growing impatient.

"I'm disappointed by the United States," said Adnan Messin, an unemployed truckdriver and occasional electrician. "The political situation is better. But everything else is worse."

"We just wanted Saddam kicked out," said Messin. "But now it's an occupation."

That is exactly what Iraq's U.S.-led administrators do not want to hear.