Attacks against US forces in Iraq endanger Bush's re-election:expert

[DuctapeFatwa]

The re-election process of US President George W. Bush is being endangered by repeated attacks against US forces deployed in Iraq, a US expert on Arab issues told Costa Rica's newspaper National on Sunday.

The present troubling situation in Iraq and repeated insurgent attacks against US soldiers are threatening Bush's re-election process in November next year, said Husein Ibish, director of Communications of Arabian-American Committee against Discrimination.

The US forces' military occupation in Iraq is an important factor affecting next year's presidential election, despite the fact that Bush's re-election is heavily dependent on whether the US economy gains steam.

The Iraq war might be a potential tragedy for those who started the war as all excuses leading to the war are based on illusive information, he said, adding that those people are losing credibility for they failed to show weapons of mass destruction inIraq and to prove the ties between the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime and the terrorist group Al-Qaeda...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-11/17/content_1182281.htm

[Solly Mack]

1. I wish I could believe it was endangered by this quagmire

however, I don't quite have that much faith in most Americans. I'd like to...but they do give me pause.

[stickdog]

2. Who cares about troops and Iraqis dying daily?

Bush's campaign is all that matters!

[radfringe]

3. that explains the "new" saddam tape

terra-lerts or tapes from Bin-Laden or Saddam just seem tosurface whenever Baghdad-Bush is in poll trouble...

New Tape, Said to Be by Hussein, Assails U.S. and Iraqi Allies
By SUSAN SACHS
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/international/middleeast/16CND-IRAQ.html?hp
Published: November 16, 2003

MOSUL, Iraq, Nov. 16 — An Arab television station broadcast a new audiotape today that it said had been recorded by the deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in which he mixed invective against Israel, calls for holy war and curses on American and other foreign occupation troops in Iraq.

If the new tape broadcast by the satellite station Al Arabiya in Dubai proved genuine, it would the first message from Mr. Hussein to be broadcast in two months, revealing a belligerent conviction on his part that Iraqis would want him back seven months after he fled before American invasion forces.

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meanwhile - I've been tracking the poll numbers / terra-lerts since jan'03
http://radicalfringe.freeservers.com/custom2.html