Acts of Bravery - Bob Herbert

[MISSDem]

He gets it right as usual. Everyone is on the side of the Iraqi people but please.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/31/opinion/31herbert.html?hp

[DrZeeLit]

1. Herbert is my hero, and I have told him so. BRAVO!!!!! n/t

[dummy-du1]

2. It isn't that bad.

To quote from the article: "Half or more of those who went to the polls believed they were voting for a president."

I'd estimate, that the percentage is even higher in the USA.

[Martin Eden]

3. "the occupiers have other things on their minds"

Herbert's last paragraph:

Iraqis may have voted yesterday. But they live in occupied territory, and the occupiers have other things on their minds than the basic wishes of the Iraqi people. That's not democracy. That's a recipe for more war.

The enormous gap between public perception in the United States and in almost all the rest of the world has to do with the "intentions" of the occupiers.

A majority of Americans (56%) now think the war was a mistake, but we here at DU are in the distinct minority (in the U.S.) who don't believe the intentions of our government are strictly self defense and spreading democracy.

Prewar claims about WMD and links to al Qaeda can be proven false, but exposing Bushco's ulterior motives (especially to people unwilling to consider the possibility) is the biggest hurdle in repudiating the neocon foreign policy.