SENIOR US DIPLOMAT ON AL-JAZEERA, US "ARROGANCE" AND "STUPIDITY"

[ShaneGR]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20061022/D8KTESI00.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A senior U.S. diplomat said the United States had shown "arrogance" and "stupidity" in Iraq but was now ready to talk with any group except Al-Qaida in Iraq to facilitate national reconciliation.

In an interview with Al-Jazeera television aired late Saturday, Alberto Fernandez, director of public diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department offered an unusually candid assessment of America's war in Iraq.

"We tried to do our best but I think there is much room for criticism because, undoubtedly, there was arrogance and there was stupidity from the United States in Iraq," he said.

"We are open to dialogue because we all know that, at the end of the day, the solution to the hell and the killings in Iraq is linked to an effective Iraqi national reconciliation," he said, speaking in Arabic from Washington. "The Iraqi government is convinced of this."


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Still Fernandez warned that failure to pacify the widening sectarian strife in Iraq as well as an enduring insurgency would damage the entire Middle East.

"We are witnessing failure in Iraq and that's not the failure of the United States alone but it is a disaster for the region. Failure in Iraq will be a failure for the United States but a disaster for the region."

[Erika]

1. W is arrogant and stupid

Why would his war be any different?

[Amonester]

2. Spread the word:

The Republicans sent thousands of our young troops to suffer and die and squandered five hundred billions of our taxes to show Republican "arrogance" and "stupidity" in Iraq.

:grr: :mad: :grr: :mad: :grr: :mad: :grr: :mad:

[Amonester]

3. Or help make it short for bumper-stickers...

K&R

[tocqueville]

5. like "Arrogant and Stupid ? Vote Republican !".... n/t

[Amonester]

6. Presque parfait!! ;-)

(enlever les espaces entre le d et le ? et entre le n et le !) :hi:

Arrogant and Stupid? Vote Republican!

Merci!! :thumbsup:

[upi402]

4. Oh great, now HE hates our freedom

sheez

[Preening Fop]

7. BBC News Warns the World: us 'Arrogant and Stupid' in Iraq....!!

Let The Warning Bells Ring, uncle sam is :crazy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6074182.stm