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Arab Poll: Bush Most Disliked World Leader
newsmax ^ | 2 9 07 | newsmax staff

Posted on 02/09/2007 12:25:46 PM PST by flixxx

A new poll on Thursday underscored deep Arab unhappiness with the United States but said the negative image could be repaired if Washington brokered a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace agreement.

The survey of 3,850 people in six Arab countries rated President George W. Bush as the most disliked world leader, while the United States and Israel were viewed as significantly greater threats than Iran.

Sixty-seven percent of the respondents said the United States could improve its image by brokering a comprehensive Middle East peace agreement.

A smaller number - 33 percent - said this image change could happen if Washington withdrew its troops from Iraq.

The results show the Arab-Israeli conflict "remains the central prism through which people are evaluating the United States", even when the international focus is on the Iraq war and nuclear crisis with Iran, said Shibley Telhami of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arab; bush; cultofevil; freebies; ignorantdeathcult; trade
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To: Edgerunner

"Well if your gonna impeach him for violating his oath, you'll have to go after half of SCOTUS and mos of Congress...say..."

It SHOULD be done. I am tired of being treated like we are serfs.


41 posted on 02/09/2007 12:40:45 PM PST by hophead ( "Enjoy Every Sandwich")
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To: flixxx
The Dims are doing all they can to have someone overtake the Peanut Brain as the worst president in history.
42 posted on 02/09/2007 12:40:54 PM PST by AlexW
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To: fatnotlazy

we've tried that on numerous occasions...hasn't worked...and never will.

Oh ye of little faith. Just give Hildebeast a chance for heavens' sake! I'm quite positive she and her entourage (including Jon Carry, of course) will bring about peace in our time.


43 posted on 02/09/2007 12:41:36 PM PST by hardworking (Vote for Hillary and show your support for psychopaths.)
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To: flixxx

BINGO!


44 posted on 02/09/2007 12:42:05 PM PST by pissant
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To: flixxx

Good. If these people are upset with us, then we know we are doing what is in the best interest of humanity.


45 posted on 02/09/2007 12:42:15 PM PST by MovementConservative (The US will win in Iraq. Thank you all US troops.)
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To: flixxx

Arab Poll: Bush Most Disliked World Leader

"The evil George Bush wants to bring freedom! Freedom is a Zionist plot! My Imam tells me so!"


46 posted on 02/09/2007 12:50:44 PM PST by COBOL2Java ("No stronger retrograde force exists in the world" - Winston Churchill on Islam)
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To: flixxx

They needed to take a poll to get this? In arab countries?


47 posted on 02/09/2007 12:51:52 PM PST by twonie (RUDY FOR PRESIDENT '08. THERE - A COMMITMENT OUT LOUD.)
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To: flixxx

It's tough being right when everyone else is wrong.


48 posted on 02/09/2007 12:53:06 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: fatnotlazy
"Comprehensive peace agreement" to a fair-minded, poorly-informed American means that each side would have half of the Holy Lands, and that would certainly make everyone feel valued, and fairly treated, and all violence would cease.

"Comprehensive peace agreement" to a well-informed Jew in the Holy Lands means that listen, you filthy animal killing machine, our fathers, children and countrymen were killed by the thousands in a war you started, and you lost that land in a war you started, and some of us are so tired of fighting and dying that they are willing to entertain the idea that if we give you enough of the land you claim you want (land we made blossom, while you did nothing with it), like the neighborhood bully you may shut up and leave us alone.

"Comprehensive peace agreement" to an Arab, possibly a Muslim, means make a nice smile, lie about our intentions, and when we have a tactical advantage, push the Jews into the sea and take everything they have (even though they have never been as abused as they claim, and there was no Holocaust.)

The essential problem is that as Americans, too many of us have forgotten what Elemental Evil is, and lie to ourselves that everyone, down deep, really wants to get along. And the other problem is, if you are the kind of Euro-American that actually cares what other countries run by scum-sucking socialist weenies thinks, you are off-base from the start. Most of the other countries hate us because we have all the toys, toys we deserve because we work hard and have saved the world three times now, soon to be a fourth. I don't give a rat's backside if a Frenchman has a "negative image" of my country. He'll have a positive image of us the next time we save his country because our citizen-soldiers are willing to keep democracy alive...until about five minutes after we defeat France's enemies, after which Mr. Funny French Floppy Hat will forget how we saved him, and complain that the movies we make are crowding out "real cinema". The world is largely made of ungrateful bastards who can't properly run their own countries, and won't take good advice on how to do it, who claim we want to take over their backward dirtpiles, even though we haven't stolen any land in a hundred years.

49 posted on 02/09/2007 12:53:41 PM PST by 50sDad (Cultural Diversity means never having to say "I don't fit in.")
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To: twonie

American poll: Arabs need a lot of work


50 posted on 02/09/2007 12:53:45 PM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: flixxx

Bush Wins! Oh, Happy Day.


51 posted on 02/09/2007 12:54:24 PM PST by rusureitflies? (OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
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To: 50sDad

Great rant!


52 posted on 02/09/2007 12:57:16 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: flixxx

More reason to like the President.


53 posted on 02/09/2007 12:58:38 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: 50sDad

Excellent rant!


54 posted on 02/09/2007 1:00:37 PM PST by Sherman Logan (Recognition of one's ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.)
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To: 50sDad
I also have to muse that when I think "Frenchman", I automatically think "Jar Jar Binks in a Beret." You know, someone with little real use other than something to laugh at, who thinks they are doing a pretty good job at life even as their heads are being crushed in a funny way by an Imperial Walker. "Meesa go BOOM!"

About all I will give them credit for is bleu cheese, those funny "binyeah" donuts, and french kissing, although I can't imagine wanting to kiss any one who lives inside inside the borders of France.

55 posted on 02/09/2007 1:01:03 PM PST by 50sDad (Cultural Diversity means never having to say "I don't fit in.")
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To: flixxx

It took a poll to discover this? As if they didn't have the answer before hand. Let's take the poll in America. I bet Bush is in the top 5 here too. Make sure the US poll is done in big cities like DC, SanFransisco, LA, Chicago, New York just to make it fair.


56 posted on 02/09/2007 1:03:05 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (No to nitwit jesters with a predisposition of self importance and unqualified political opinions!)
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To: 50sDad

HERE! HERE!


57 posted on 02/09/2007 1:15:53 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (No to nitwit jesters with a predisposition of self importance and unqualified political opinions!)
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To: 50sDad

You really hit the nail on the head...in more ways than one.

Thanks!


58 posted on 02/09/2007 1:16:50 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: flixxx

Freeper poll:

So what?


59 posted on 02/09/2007 1:23:16 PM PST by Kevmo (Duncan Hunter just needs one jump-the-shark Verrucktenfreude moment by Hillary Clinton in 2007)
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To: ClaireSolt

American Poll: Arabs are civilizations boat anchor


60 posted on 02/09/2007 1:30:27 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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