Mubarak: Arabs Hate U.S. More Than Ever

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=3&u=/nm/20040420/ts_nm/mideast_egypt_usa_dc

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Mubarak, who visited the United States last week, told French newspaper Le Monde that Washington's actions had caused despair, frustration and a sense of injustice in the Arab world.

"Today there is hatred of the Americans like never before in the region," he said in an interview given during a stay in France, where he met President Jacques Chirac Monday.

He blamed the hostility partly on U.S. support for Israel, which assassinated Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi in a missile strike in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) Saturday weeks after killing his predecessor, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

"At the start some considered the Americans were helping them. There was no hatred of the Americans. After what has happened in Iraq, there is unprecedented hatred and the Americans know it," Mubarak said.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Well, DUH!

[The Stranger]

2. They're being invaded, occupied, murdered and persecuted.

People tend not to like that.

[bif]

3. No shit, Sherlock!

n/t

[Stuckinthebush]

4. And Bush doesn't give a damn...

A serious problem and Bush couldn't care less. He is on a mission from God and if these "a-rabs" don't see it, then that is their fault.

John Kerry has a lot of cleaning up to do. I hope that the week after he is inaugurated, he goes on a personal peace building tour of the mid-east, Europe, and Russia. Then he can swing back around to Australia and up from Argentina to Central America before he hits home again. All the while saying, "We are so sorry about what happened these last four years."

[Larkspur]

7. Kerry doesn't give a damn about Arab sentiment either

He supports Bush's support of Sharon's plan in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Kerry is whoring for pro-Israel Jewish votes in Florida, so he doesn't care about Arab sentiment.

[Magleetis]

We tried to warn them

Would they listen?

[NJmaverick]

5. Yet the morons in this country think our king is doing a great job

on foreign policy. Having the whole world hate us like this is the most destructive national policy in our entire history.

[mulethree]

6. Here it is: the Right-Wing "Master Plan" nicely laid out...

recent thread in general discussion started by PORKRIND

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1441427

and great link in LEGIN's subthread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1441427#1442158

[leftchick]

8. 'Abu Abdullah the martyr, mutilated by Americans.'

An Iraqi youth cries near the grave stone of Falluja resident Abu Abdullah, at a makeshift cemetery in the besieged town, April 20, 2004. The script in Arabic reads, 'Abu Abdullah the martyr, mutilated by Americans.' Arabs in the Middle East hate the United States more than ever following the invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) and Israel's assassination of two Hamas leaders, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (news - web sites) said in comments published Tuesday. Mubarak, who visited the U.S. last week, told French newspaper Le Monde that Washington's actions had caused despair, frustration and a sense of injustice in the Arab world. Photo by Akram Saleh/Reuters