Bush? Kerry? It Makes No Difference to Iraqis

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041019/pl_nm/campaign_iraqis_dc&cid=615&ncid=1473

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Some see U.S. presidential challenger Senator John Kerry (news - web sites) as an articulate war hero with credentials to lead a superpower, others are grateful President Bush (news - web sites) toppled Saddam Hussein.

But even if Iraqis could vote in the U.S. presidential elections, few believe either man will save their country from daily carnage.

"Bush should just retire. He has given me nothing but headaches. He removed Saddam and gave us many other big problems. America needs a new leader," said Abbas Muhammad.

"Now Iraq (news - web sites) has huge problems. I like Kerry but I really don't think much will change here even if Iraqis could vote in America."

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1. Thomas Barnett, warmonger extraordinaire

Cantor Fitzgerald employee,
neocon ally
and registered Democrat
is DETERMINED
to continue the bloodletting.

The Pentagon's New Map
It explains why we're going to war. And why we'll keep going to war.
http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2004/040510_mfe_barnett_1.html

Barnett, the "Star-Trek quoting Navy analyst," Kelley writes, has a lexicon "laden with pop culture terms, not the acronyms common at the Pentagon. In his view of the world, the bad guys are in 'the Gap,' and the good guys belong to 'the Core.'"

"The post-attack Pentagon was much more receptive to his ideas, said Barnett, who spent two years as Assistant for Strategic Futures in the Office of Force Transformation before returning to the Naval War College last year. In fact, Barnett says, his Core-Gap ideas help explain what the Pentagon is doing in Afghanistan and Iraq."

"Echoes of Barnett's ideas can be heard when Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says terrorists don't have armies, navies or air forces or when his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, says a democratic Iraq will serve as an example for the rest of the Middle East," Kelley says.
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=The_Pentagon's_New_Map:_War_and_Peace_in_the_Twenty-First_Century_(2004_book)

It's all a question of marketing.
Dems like futuristic scifi action.
Reps like biblical fire and brimstone.

Either way,
the Iraqis keep dying.

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2. not exactly a raving endorsement of their 'liberator'