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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (618102)	9/4/2004 1:51:46 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"I will tell you with certainty that American Politicians loudly lying about WMDs and Saddam/Al-Qaeda connections was a very disturbing thing for Arabs and the world to hear and see on TV. Bush's face and words were everywhere in the Arab world. There may very well be a study that shows just how violence escalated in Iraq after Bush's comments and lies. It is right to disagree, however, there are intelligent ways of phrasing disagreements. The remarks incited people here. How do you think it sounded over THERE?"

To: TideGlider who wrote (618102)	9/4/2004 1:52:10 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Respond to of 769670

I would think that the lack of security, jobs, electricity, clean water, etc had more to do with the dissatisfaction in Iraq than what Ted Kennedy said on TV. I remember reading where the Iraqis believed that the Americans were deliberately dragging their feet in providing security and electricity as some sort of warning or punishment. They could not believe that there was no real plan for reconstruction, and that we were so incompetent in providing even basic needs to the country we occupied. They viewed us as, well, better than that. Then, as the attacks started, our responses were often inept and resulted in many civilian deaths. Our troops were simply not trained or prepared for this style of occupation. Each time we accidentally killed a family at a checkpoint, our support fell and the opposition grew stronger. As Powell warned Bush, by invading we 'owned' the country. That brought a certain level of responsibility, which we fumbled. Although the vast majority of Iraqis did support us at the beginning, that support has evaporated into distrust and, in a small percentage of the population, open resistance. To lay all that on a speech by Kennedy is an incredible claim.