White House says Newsweek Koran story has HURT America's Image

[mopaul]

what fucking planet am i on again? oh yeah, earth.

that was the actual headline on the t.v. propaganda machine.

[madhat]

1. Like the USSR, this Admin will collapse under the weight

of its own contradictions.

[Deep13]

2. Seems hard to imagine...

...considering how bad our image sucks already. Here's what I cannot figure out. Abuse, humiliate and torture prisoners: no riots. Damage a book: riots.

[mopaul]

6. i understand it, even though i've never experienced it

it's just insult after insult after murder after invasion after suicide bombing after casualty after madness. i understand it perfectly, and so does bushco

[JHB]

3. Of course...

...after all, these guys operate on the philosophy:

"If a man screams in agony from torture, but news never gets out, did it really happen?"

[peekaloo]

4. Pathetically funny. Yet Bu$h's shit stain of democracy marches on.

[malaise]

5. ROTFL

OK then.

[spanone]

7. Funniest fucking thing this white house has said in years.

...and bombing,invading and occupying a sovereign nation that never hurt the US surely helped our stature in the Islamic world. What a bunch of fuckwads.

[mopaul]

9. newsweek of mass destruction

how dare newsweek inflame the arab world? i'm shocked and mopauled!

[Cobalt Violet]

8. Since when does Mr. CuckooBananas care about America's image?

Only when it suit his agenda I guess.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

10. Flip flop!!!

You mean Chimpy listens to them fancified Focus Groups now?

GawwwLeee!!

[Spazito]

11. This poll says the image of the US was hurt LONG before

the Newsweek article:

Poll: World's opinion of U.S. dimming
Published October 20, 2004

America's image has plunged, the Iraq war was a mistake and John Kerry would make a better president than George Bush.

No, that's not a Kerry campaign line, but the results of a new international poll.

snip

A majority of those polled in seven nations - including such close U.S. allies as Canada and Australia - say their opinion of the United States has worsened in the past few years. America "has thrown away the huge wealth of sympathy" it gained after the Sept. 11 attacks, said Spain's El Pais, one of the participating papers.

With the exception of Israelis, more than half of those polled said the United States was wrong to invade Iraq. "The U.S. should realize the limits of a policy relying on force," said Japan's Asahi Shimbun.

more

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/10/20/Columns/Poll__World_s_opinion.shtml

Edited to add another poll specific to Arab nations, taken in 2004

Poll Shows Growing Arab Rancor at U.S.
Friday, July 23, 2004; Page A26


Arab views of the United States, shaped largely by the Iraq war and a post-Sept. 11 climate of fear, have worsened in the past two years to such an extent that in Egypt -- an important ally in the region -- nearly 100 percent of the population now holds an unfavorable opinion of the country, according to two polls due out today.




Both surveys were conducted in June by Zogby International and polled Arab men and women in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.

The findings reflect the concerns raised in the Sept. 11 commission report released yesterday, which emphasized a losing battle for public opinion. "Support for the United States has plummeted," the commissioners wrote.

"What we're seeing now is a disturbing sympathy with al Qaeda coupled with resentment toward the United States, and we ought to be extremely troubled by that," said Shibley Telhami, a University of Maryland professor who commissioned one of the surveys.

more

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7080-2004Jul22.html

[mopaul]

12. shouldn't newsweek be prosecuted for war crimes? I mean afterall,

people died over a lie

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[Protagoras]

14. New Alien and Sedition acts?

Sounds like the solution to Buscho. I'm sure they can just dust off the old version and re-use em.

[mopaul]

15. outrage kick

[peacetalksforall]

16. Newsweek hurting our image is peepee, make that PP for Pure

Propaganda.

Boy, are they ever getting reckless....they are walking a tightrope over a glacier culvert and precipice with their lack of credibility.

Sorry Dick. Sorry Karl. We won't buy it. No hogwash today or tomorrow.

Democrats are so much more adult and professional compared to these people.