So you thought the President's poll numbers were bad here? Take a look at poll of Arab nations being published today at Reuters
http://www.alertnet.org/....
An October poll of six Arab nations indicates 78 percent of respondents thought "there was more terrorism because of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, with four out of five saying the war had brought less peace to the region."
How about we fire the Lincoln Group and end the contract for that faux news? Aside from the obvious lapse of journalistic ethics, we paid for brie and got Cheez Whiz.
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Rather than being a model to inspire Arab nations to adopt democratic goals, Telhami said respondents felt the opposite was true of the United States, whose human rights image has been tarnished by scandals involving abuse by U.S. forces of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and at a U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The Bush administration has made spreading democracy in the Middle East a centerpiece of its foreign policy. The State Department in July appointed a special envoy, Karen Hughes, to improve the U.S. image abroad, especially in Islamic nations. However, during her trips to the Middle East, Hughes has come face to face with Muslim anger over the U.S.-led invasion in Iraq.
In the new poll, 69 percent of those surveyed doubted that spreading democracy was the real U.S. objective. Oil, protecting Israel, dominating the region and weakening the Muslim world were seen as U.S. goals.
And they said we would be "greeted as liberators"? Well, not so much it appears. Let's just hope we didn't have to pay for the polling.