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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 09:25 AM
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Battered Iraqis Find No Comfort in Bush Speech
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040525/ts_nm/iraq_bush_reaction_dc&cid=564&ncid=1473

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites)'s speech outlining his plan to hand over power to Iraqis and ease their troubles won few people over in Baghdad, where weary residents are bitter after more than a year of chaos. snip



"He lies. We don't believe anything Bush says. The Americans have not done a thing for Iraqis. And now he promises to hand over power to Iraqis in a democracy after handpicking the people in the Governing Council," Haidar Majeed, a trader, said on Tuesday. snip


"The Americans can move a tank to Iraq in two days yet they can't even give us more than two hours of electricity a day for the air conditioning," said Fallah Hassan, sipping bitter Arabic coffee with fellow unemployed Iraqis.


"Saddam used to cut off the electricity to punish us and now we see the Americans living in his palace with no electricity problems while we suffer."

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jay-3d Donating Member (240 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 09:29 AM
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1. How many times did Bush say terrorist.
How many times did Bush say terrorist. I call it asymmetrical warfare. terrorism is a form of warfare not a person.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 10:50 AM
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3. Terrorism is war for soldiers without money
at least, that's the new definition.
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 09:48 AM
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2. How can those ungrateful Ay-rabs say such things?
Why, it was the greatest plan a drunk with scabs on his face has EVER come up with!
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