The Nation: Bush Makes Saddam Look Good

[maddezmom]

Yep, you did it, George — mission impossible accomplished. Unbelievably, four years of a bungled occupation have managed to make Saddam Hussein's tyranny look good in comparison with "liberated Iraq."

At least, that is the view of the Iraqi weightlifter made famous through a video of him taking a sledgehammer to Saddam Hussein's statue. "I really regret bringing down the statue," Kadhim al-Jubouri said on British television this week. "The Americans are worse than the dictatorship. Every day is worse than the previous day."

That's the judgment of a man who spent nine years in Hussein's jails, and, unfortunately, it is one shared by a majority of his countrymen, according to an authoritative poll sponsored jointly by ABC, BBC and USA Today: Only 38 percent of Iraqis believe that the country is better off today than under Hussein, while nearly four out of five oppose the presence of coalition forces in Iraq.

Even more disturbing is that 51 percent of Iraqis think it is OK to attack coalition troops — triple the number who thought that way in a 2004 survey. Square that with our president's assurances, offered since the first month of this unnecessary adventure, that the insurgency represents a small handful of terrorists. While most of the antipathy is registered among Sunnis, 94 percent of whom favor attacks on coalition forces, and by only 7 percent of Kurds, a surprising 35 percent of Shiites endorse that sort of violence.

more:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/23/opinion/main2600708.shtml

[youngdem]

1. Dayum....Ouch

That's gotta sting a little, eh Georgie Boy.

Say, who's gonna be the White House whipping boy while Snowjob is out? This should be fun to field.

[Wilber_Stool]

2. I posted this on another board

a while back.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
He was the man that drug Turkey out of the seventh century and in to the 20th. Killed a lot of Armenians and Kurds, through more in jail, dictated that Turkish would be the national language. Used a pretty heavy hand.
Now, 80 years later he’s considered the father of modern Turkey. They treat him like a god.
Might that have been Saddam’s legacy?

Posted? Is that right? Need help from a grammer Nazi.

[LiberalFighter]

3. I forgive the Iraqi's for attacking our troops. I don't like them doing it and...

the sooner we get the hell out of there the sooner our soldiers will not be killed for the wrong reason. I don't like the idea of our soldiers losing their lives but especially for a wrong cause. They weren't sent there to free them from tyranny. They were sent there for bushwad's personal goals. They weren't sent there to give them democracy. You can't have democracy when a government is based on religion.

How many of the troops believe that this war is a just war? Or would they mostly fight because it is something they like to do regardless of the cause? I would hope that most believe that going to war should only be done when we need to defend the country.

Only 51% percent of Iraqis think it is OK to attack liberation troops?

What percent of Americans would think it is OK if another country or countries invaded the USA?

Part of the problem that causes Iraqis to think it is okay to attack us? Could it be the innocents that are killed in trying to root out the insurgents?