IRAQI OPINION: the number who say we're 'liberators' has sunk from 43% to 15%.
The number who say we're 'occupiers' rose from 45% to 67%.
33% want a theocratic government. 23% more want an 'islamic democracy'--like that in Iran (!)
One Kurdish member of our puppet Council says: "When we can't control the budget, or security, or create jobs, we might as well give up. We're seen as puppets of U.S.
If we fail, they fail." /OBSERVER26OCT
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Ominously: "It used to be the Sunnis against the Americans. But now I notice that some of my Shiite friends are turning hostile." Ominous because Shiites are the majority in Iraq.
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A Baghdad grocer said (after shelling of Wolfowitz' hotel): " I wish he had been killed. I wish all Americans here would be killed. They are not human beings. They are monsters. They lied to the Iraqi people."/Reuters26OCT