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Zogby Bashes Iraq Invasion (in cornell lecture)

Zogby severely condemned U.S. policy, claiming it is undoing any goodwill Arabs hold towards the US. He called attempts to reach out to the Muslim world “ham-handed.”

“We are selling our values like Uncle Ben’s Rice — Arabs are so easy to read, but we’re not communicating at all … Good police work will find the terrorists; you breed more terror by shutting off people,” he said.

Zogby claimed that Arabs held negative opinions of Bush due to his bonding with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the intense lead-up to war, and the Abu Ghraib scandal.

“We have no idea how devastating [the Abu Ghraib scandal] was. To many Arabs, we train our troops on how best to humiliate them,” he said.

Zogby held yet more criticism for the Bush administration during a question period following his lecture, painting a dark picture for postwar Iraq, and saying that the United States’ exit strategy must be to leave immediately.

He also predicted a “rendering apart” of the Republican base as the Christian right battled against other conservative intellectuals.

“What darkens things is the Christian right. They’re a contradiction to what the conservative ideology has always been about; they’re trying to impose their value system on everybody else and utilize the government to do so. They’re very similar to Wahhabism is this way,” he said, speaking of the fundamentalist Islamic movement.

Zogby also claimed that the word “liberal” has become dirty and “bankrupt of new ideas.”

Zogby was pessimistic of the future situation in the Middle East, saying that the next president would be likely to continue to hold a presence in the Middle East.

“We’ve managed to piss off the entire rest of the world,” he said. Zogby’s speech was well-received among students.

He's so anti Bush, he can't see straight. His polls are garbage.