To: Brumar89 who wrote (353164 ) 10/2/2007 11:16:04 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to **I am not contradicting myself.....SA is Mecca to the Muslims. They see having troops on Mecca soil as an abomination. Not the same with Kuwait.....in fact, many Arabs hate the Kuwaitis because of their uppity ways. As to whether US troops in SA were an affront to the whole Muslim world, just post where someone other than OBL or other spokesperson complained about the issue. "The "invasion" of Saudi Arabia by hundreds of thousands of Western soldiers during Operation Desert Storm caused a backlash among Saudi conservatives, and some liberals, who want to preserve Arabian culture and fear domination by the West. Some secular Saudis dislike the Saudi family's domination of the state and the corruption it breeds. More radical Muslims assail the royal family for allying itself with the infidel United States. For decades, the Saudis avoided publicly associating themselves too closely with the United States unless absolutely necessary." fas.org There has been poll after poll that clearly shows the degradation of the American image throughout the world. As for the three countries you cite, they elected conservatives; not neocons...with the possible exception of Sarkozy. And mark my words, if Sarkozy continues on his present course, the French will hate him just as much as the Americans hate Bush. The term neoconservative, used in that context, simply means ‘new’ conservative and there are distinct views and positions that go along with this ideology that vastly stray from traditional conservative views. Most notably among those views is the adoption of a foreign policy of preemption. Preemptive war and preemptive strikes are distinctly neoconservative, or old far left, positions and stray vastly away from the traditional conservative or Christian view of ‘just war’. stanky.wordpress.com At any rate, the new govts in Canada, GErmany, and France are much friendlier to the Bush adm. and its policies than their predecessors. Maybe anti-Americanism just isn't that big an issue to foreigners as our leftsists wish. Bush Continues to Unite the World... Against Him Message 23212791 That isn't factual. Arabs wiped out the centuries old Hebron Jewish community. A number of other Jewish communities were wiped out or driven out. The Jewish population of Jerusalem was almost cut off and put in danger of destruction. A number of villages in Galilee that had held a Jewish peasant population which had never left Palestine were driven out of their homes by Arab violence.jewishvirtuallibrary.org en.wikipedia.org eretzyisroel.org en.wikipedia.org ;Hardly. If you are not partisan, you don't have to look far to find things to hate about Bush. I am proud to say I disliked Bush on the campaign trail and voted for Gore. After he got elected, I grew to hate him.
