Fox News: “4 Years Later: Iraqis ‘Thanking’ America”
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Fox News: “4 Years Later: Iraqis ‘Thanking’ America”
Today on his Fox News show, host Neil Cavuto did a segment on “something you are not hearing” — how many Iraqis are “thanking” the United States for “liberating” Iraq:
Cavuto’s segment and his guests do not represent the majority of Iraqis. According to a new BBC/ABC News poll, just 18 percent of Iraqis now have confidence in the U.S.-led coalition troops and nearly 90 percent “say they live in fear that the violence ravaging their country will strike themselves and the people with whom they live.” Other poll highlights:
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Damn media never reports the good stuff! Like, um, ceilings that drip poop!
March 19th, 2007 at 6:43 pmYeah but Herman Munster’s son, Neil Cavuto said so.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:43 pmCavuto is such a piece of human garbage, just a lying dirtbag Nazi propagandist.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:44 pm9% of Iraqis think GWB personally is responsible for the violence. There is hope for the nation after all.
Note that the Kurds seem more at ease than other areas of the country. Kurdistan, what happens there, stays there; it’s why Kurdistan is the place for vacationing Iraqis.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:45 pmI hope that miserable son of a bitch Darth Raygun is rotting in his grave happily, now that his decision to do away with the Fairness Doctrine has allowed bald faced liars like Faux Noise to get away with flagrant distortions like this.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:45 pmGoes well witht he previous thread. Thank you media for feeding us more lies. May I have some more please?
March 19th, 2007 at 6:46 pmThose towel heads better thank Bush. He has brought freedom, peace and democracy to Iraq.
Honestly, how many Iraqis would prefer Saddam to Bush’s democracy? You libs must hate freedom.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:47 pmI think Mark Russell said it best: “Satire is not only dead, it’s just evaporated into the soil.”
March 19th, 2007 at 6:48 pmNeil is a washed up financial reporter because no one believed his financial reports so they make him a Faux NoNooz reporter. I guess every person finally finds their true calling in life. His is to be the biggest talking a$$hole this side of O’Lielly and Hanitee-hee.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:50 pmWhy has no one in the mainstream media asked Bush this logical question? If FDR’s sons could do it, so can Bush’s relatives. Unless Bush believes Iraq is only for the working and middle classes.
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0319-20.htm
March 19th, 2007 at 6:51 pmThose towel heads better thank Bush. He has brought freedom, peace and democracy to Iraq. Firehead
Spoken like a true Repug! A racist, bullshit comment if I ever heard one.
BTW, just when did all this peace, freedom and democracy come to Iraq?
March 19th, 2007 at 6:54 pmFirehead,
Are you asking a hypothetical? Because if you were to look at the polls, read any foriegn press from the region or just allow some oxygen to your cranium you might see that most actually would prefer to go back to being a functioning country without blood clogging the gutters.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:54 pmThank you, America!
Thank you for starting a war that has killed us by the hundreds of thousands!
Thank you for destroying our water plants and electrical system!
Thank you for the ruination of our country!
Thank you!
Not.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:57 pmIf anyone believes this one, I’ve got some prime swampland in Louisiand to sell them! Go away, Fake News. You’re showing your idiocy big time now. This news station deserves to be renamed “Foch Snooze” because they’re all asleep at the wheel. Ole Rupey has one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel. What a tired, old, beaten joke of a man.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:58 pm[…] ThinkProgress […]
March 19th, 2007 at 6:58 pmI’m surprised that they didn’t reiterate the words of the scumbag princess of theirs, Ann Coultergeist, by saying how “swimmingly” things were going. What planet are they all on anyway? Oops…I know - It’s Ur-anus!
March 19th, 2007 at 6:59 pmVery telling that Cavuto isn’t over in Iraq, outside the Green Zone, to personally accept all those Iraqi “Thank You’s” to W’s Glorious Crusade
March 19th, 2007 at 7:00 pmPardon me for getting crude but someone should Neil Cavuto and asked him why the women he has tried to hit upon aren’t calling him and thanking him for his rude behavior.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:00 pmI think we should send our dingbat Firehead over to ask the Iraqis his question personally, don’t you?
March 19th, 2007 at 7:00 pmor just allow some oxygen to your cranium
ain’t gonna happen with this specimen of devolution
March 19th, 2007 at 7:00 pmCavuto speaks to the 30% who are braindead.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:02 pmI’m surprised that they didn’t reiterate the words of the scumbag princess of theirs, Ann Coultergeist Veritas
You heard he/she/it is hung better than Dubya, and he is very jealous of her at the moment, so Annie-Babe………. better watch yurself!!
March 19th, 2007 at 7:03 pm#7
SH#THEAD is a mkore appropriate moniker for you. Use it often it fits you to a T moron.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:03 pmThose towel heads better thank Bush. He has brought freedom, peace and democracy to Iraq.
Honestly, how many Iraqis would prefer Saddam to Bush’s democracy? You libs must hate freedom.
Comment by firehead — March 19, 2007 @ 6:47 pm
He’s brought misery, pestilence, death, and an unbridled world-wide hatred of America. Jesus, you’re such an easy target to dismantle firehead…really, you are.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:04 pmHi there, I am from FoxNews (holding and waving a hundred dollar bill) would you like to thank america? “thank you america” reporter puts bill in pocket says: “you don’t actually think I am going to give you that hundred after you said it do you?
March 19th, 2007 at 7:05 pmwell, that’s what that sunday times “poll” was about…
March 19th, 2007 at 7:06 pm“investigative journalism” at it’s foxest…
Do they just pull these things from their asses?
March 19th, 2007 at 7:17 pmHe didn’t say that he was speaking of 18% in Iraq to the 30% in America . So he wasn’t lying (according to himself) he simply twisted the facts.
This was as much a war on the American people as it was for all that Iraqi oil.
Isn’t it about time we polled the American people to ask them if they are as proud of Amerika as they used to be of America?
March 19th, 2007 at 7:41 pmIt should be, the the bushi regime “thanks Iraq” for the fortune they have aquired since they went to Iraq. The longer the visit the bigger the profit.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:45 pmImpeach the oil ranchers.
“Thanking America”, huh? I suppose all those WMDs are “thank-you gifts”…
</snark>
March 19th, 2007 at 7:46 pm#27 http://thinkprogress.org/ 2007/ 03/ 18/ 35-percent/ #comments
They published that yesterday, 30% are proud of the war; I take that to mean that they are proud of America as well.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:49 pmCavuto = CUA!!!
March 19th, 2007 at 7:51 pmAccording to News Hounds, the three people interviewed are Iraqi-Americans, not Iraqis. One is a Kurdish immigrant who came over when he was 15, another has ties to the Pentagon and the third is his wife.
That’s what we call “journalism.” Unreal.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:52 pmneil cavuto and gang just make up crap out of the air and make it headlines. totally devoid of fact. i loved that one headline that cavuto’s show put on the scroll asking…..”President George W. Bush, greatest President ever?” in question form …always true to cavuto form.
March 19th, 2007 at 8:18 pmcavuto……. “george w. bush….greatest president ever?”
remember that headline on his show?
March 19th, 2007 at 8:20 pmYou libs must hate freedom.
Comment by firehead
No, we just REALLY hate you and your ilk!!!!!
March 19th, 2007 at 8:47 pmOMG do you laugh or do you cry…
March 19th, 2007 at 8:47 pmSurely America doesn’t buy this garbage… if so, we have to be the laughing stock of the world.
Where are you Canada? Help!
Missed it. Did Neil sing “Dankashane” after lying?
March 19th, 2007 at 8:50 pmThats pretty funny.
That Neil Cavuto is one of my favorite comedians.
Here Neil. Lets take a look at a few of the things the Iraqi’s have to thank us for.
Here. Here is what the Iraqi people have to thank us for that we just gave them today.
__________________________
(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1215 GMT on Monday:
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Sounds great.
I hope they don’t decide to thank us in person.
March 19th, 2007 at 8:52 pmFox News: False and Biased.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:32 pm#7 There goes firehead. That is just so over the top that it HAS to be snark. If not…wow.
March 19th, 2007 at 11:45 pmHey Cavuto, YA FAT SLOB, WHY DIDN’T YA MENTION Kadhim al-Jubouri, an Iraqi weightlifter who helped pull down Saddam’s statue when Iraq fell who recently said on CNN “The Americans are worse than (Saddam’s) dictatorship. Every day is worse than the previous day,” Adding that “he would prefer to be living under Saddam than under U.S. occupation…the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t. We no longer know friend from foe. The situation is becoming more dangerous. It’s not getting better at all. People are poor and the prices are going higher and higher.” WELL, Cavuto? YA LYING SACK OF HYENA-SHIT!!!!! YA AND FOX(tm)NEWS!!!!!
March 19th, 2007 at 11:54 pm#41 Actually they are not worth the effort. Their motto should be “Fox News…Kinda retarded.”
March 20th, 2007 at 12:05 amEarlier today at my VW dealer, I was talking to a vet back from the Middle East. He said it is absolutely unbelievable how despised we are by the Iraqis. Even the ones who pretend to like us, look upon us as filthy infidels and literally hate us. Maybe this Fox-media-whore Cavuto would like to do a little better than reading his reports from a prepared page. Maybe he could do a series of personal interviews and get his news right from the source- the people who actually live and die there, every day.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:08 am#43 Funny thing is he is supposed to be an economic news source but avoids economic issues with a passion. Might have something to do with his Adam Smithian, trickle down view being a total failure.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:15 amGeorge Washington wrote:
“I have written before about the critical need for Congress to reassert its authority over foreign policy, and for the American people to recognize that the Constitution makes no distinction between domestic and foreign matters. Policy is policy, and it must be made by the legislature and not the executive.
But what policy is best? How should we deal with the rest of the world in a way that best advances proper national interests, while not threatening our freedoms at home?”
I believe our founding fathers had it right when they argued for peace and commerce between nations, and against entangling political and military alliances. In other words, noninterventionism.
Noninterventionism is not isolationism. Nonintervention simply means America does not interfere militarily, financially, or covertly in the internal affairs of other nations. It does not mean that we isolate ourselves; on the contrary, our founders advocated open trade, travel, communication, and diplomacy with other nations.
Thomas Jefferson summed up the noninterventionist foreign policy position perfectly in his 1801 inaugural address: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.” Washington similarly urged that we must, “Act for ourselves and not for others,” by forming an “American character wholly free of foreign attachments.”
something to think about.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:23 ami think that is is F&&&&*G funny that on one page that you go to that you see the same poll with different reports along with it. I do not know what they did to get there information But in all my time on this earth have I ever seen a more distorted view like this horse%#^t is. If you go to this link. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ tol/ news/ world/ iraq/ article1530762.ece
you will look at this poll alot different. that is all I have to say.
SIGNED
ANONOMYS
March 20th, 2007 at 12:24 am#46 You can believe in leprechauns and unicorns for all I care. Doesn’t make you any less of an idiot.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:29 amAnd why did you sign your post Anonomys (sic) and sign in under “not gonna know”? Slow?
March 20th, 2007 at 12:30 amBush: ‘Iraq withdrawal may spark 9/11 repeat’
this should read what I ( Bush ) have done has made america more unsafe we cannot win the war on terror
The Original American Foreign Policy
Noninterventionism is not isolationism. Nonintervention simply means America does not interfere militarily, financially, or covertly in the internal affairs of other nations. It does not mean that we isolate ourselves; on the contrary, our founders advocated open trade, travel, communication, and diplomacy with other nations.
Thomas Jefferson summed up the noninterventionist foreign policy position perfectly in his 1801 inaugural address: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.” Washington similarly urged that we must, “Act for ourselves and not for others,” by forming an “American character wholly free of foreign attachments.”
March 20th, 2007 at 6:06 amIn the Uk it said on TV “support for war 1 in three”
next it shows a car with young thugs driving past shouting at war protestors “Nuke Iraq”
This is the support for the Goverment young Thugs
“that explains the low levels goverments have to go to get support every”
March 20th, 2007 at 6:08 amThe war was illegal from the start as a preemptive war of aggression banned by the Geneva Accords. The Bush administration clearly knew Iraq posed no imminent threat to the United States and yet ordered the attack and occupation anyway of the sovereign nation whose only real crime was having the audacity to live on top of one of the world’s largest oil fields.
The only real support for the Government are young immature thugs running round shouting Nuke Iraq thats exactly how low this goverment support has stooped too
March 20th, 2007 at 6:14 amIn what way is Iraq free?
March 20th, 2007 at 9:38 amamazing how dishonest thinkprogress.org and others that hate Bush and Republicans are….
why doesn’t thinkprogress.org bother to put up the biggest poll done in Iraq by a UK polling company that shows that 42% of Iraqis don’t believe their country is in a civil war, while 27% do.
why doesn’t it show the polls that say that most Iraqis don’t want the USA to leave yet?
obviously, it would be too much to ask for a ultra-liberal organization like thinkprogress.org to show both side of the coins. how truly and honestly sad.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:03 amTobey Tall, obviously you aren’t much of a lawyer and you dont’ know much about truces and treaties.
1) The IRaq War was completly legal. After the end of the Gulf War I in 1990 neither the USA nor the UN signed a peace treaty with Iraq. A truce was signed, very, very, very different than a peace treaty. Just like N. Korea and S. Korea have a truce and not a peace treaty. We all know that the Korean War has never officially and legally ended. that is the same thing that happened in 1990.
2)The truce that Iraq did sign had stipulations in it. Among many things it called on Iraq to end human right abuses, you know the systematic and purposedly killing of hundreds of thousands of its citizens. Stop researching and building WMDs. Stop researching and building missles that could reach Europe and Israel, etc, etc, etc. Now, for the sake of argument let us say that there were no WMDs, right? But he did have long range missles that were forbiden under the UN truce, he mass murdered hundreds of thousands of his people. These two things alone are a clear violation of the truce signed by Iraq in 1990, thus making the war completly legal.
Sad that you can’t see the real crimes of Saddam Hussein and his regime, the mass mudering of millions. You seem to forget that you guys on the left supported Clinton when he went into Kosovo for Serbia’s gross violations of human rights there. You seem to forget that Liberals today are calling on Bush and his administration to take action against the government of Darfur since diplomacy failed.
so you tell me, do you think that Iraqis are not human beings? do you think that only people from Kosovo and Darfur and human enough for the USA to intervene and stop the mass killings from their governments?
March 20th, 2007 at 10:10 amSad that you can’t see the real crimes of Saddam Hussein and his regime, the mass mudering of millions.
news reports 2 days ago saying 1 million have died in Iraq as a direct result of american occupation
If Kofi Annan the Un secretary general says the Iraq war was illegal I would prefer to beleive him than any misinterperatation of the Un on behalf of the American Admin
March 20th, 2007 at 10:30 amSo you say Iraq was better off under Saddam?
Here’s an idea–let’s ask the Iraqis!
By AcademicElephant Posted in War — Comments (13) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
The “Life-was-Better-for-Iraqis-under-Saddam” theme has been gathering strength as of late; of course it always does when the grim anniversary on the invasion draws near. And Monday marks four years since we went in. Just to review, consensus opinion holds that Iraq is consumed by a civil war that makes the “brutal stability” of Saddam seem a preferable option. And women were better off with Saddam. Children too. Not to mention gay Iraqis. Health care was better. As one crack analyst put it, “Pretty much all you had to do in Saddam’s Iraq was shut the hell up and mind your own business”–et voila! Before those pesky sanctions, the economy boomed and the people were happy (or rather they knew their place–at least they should have if they knew what was good for them, as this author clearly does). Even the oracular Hans Blix says so. Oh, and the sainted Kofi Annan.
There’s lots more here.
Read on…
In the face of all this certainty, it seems counter-intuitive to suggest that even giving the levels of violence in the capital, Saddam’s Iraq was not a haven of tolerance for gays and religious minorities, nor was it a model of progressive care for women and children. It was not a utopia of economic opportunity and prosperity. And those who so loudly and self-righteously trumpet their constitutionally-mandated freedoms here in the US might reflect that “shutting up” is a pretty high price to pay, even to live in the paradise that was Saddam’s Iraq.
Of course, that’s just my opinion. Everyone has an opinion. But maybe we should ask the Iraqis?
Luckily for us, an independent British polling company did just that. They deployed 400 employees to interview 5000 Iraqis on a range of subjects. Some of the results are not surprising, given what we see on the news everyday. Iraq is a violent place, and murder and kidnapping are a huge concern for many. But, even so, the survey came back with some other results that seem to fly in the face of the “Iraq-was-better-under-Saddam” crowd:
But 49 per cent of those questioned preferred life under Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to living under Saddam, while 26 per cent said things were better in Saddam’s era, 16 per cent said they were as bad as each other and the rest did not know or refused to answer.
Not surprisingly, the divisions in Iraqi society were reflected in the statistics: Sunnis were more likely to back the previous Ba’ath Party regime (51 per cent) while the Shi’ites (66 per cent) preferred the Maliki Government.
Mr Maliki, who gets much of his support from hardline Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi army, has begun to address criticism that his Government favours the Shi’ites, going out of his way to be seen with Sunni tribal leaders.
The poll shows a marked increase in support for Mr Maliki. A survey conducted by ORB in September found only 29 per cent of Iraqis had a favourable opinion of the Prime Minister.
A surprise was that only 27 per cent believed they were caught up in a civil war. Again, that number divided along religious lines, with 41 per cent of Sunnis believing Iraq was in civil war, while 15 per cent of Shi’ites thought things were that bad.
That is a surprise. But we should probably take note, because with all due respect to Matt Lauer, wouldn’t the Iraqis know better than he if they were in a civil war? I wonder of some Iraqis participating in earlier polls over there that fueled Saddam-nostalgia over here reflexively shaded their answers in favor of a violent tyrant who might yet return to power, especially if the Americans were to lose heart and leave. After all, Saddam survivors might feel that you never know for sure who’s asking, or what they’re really trying to find out. Now that Saddam is truly gone–and as gruesome as those photographs were, they do demonstrate the finality of his execution–a post-Saddam Iraq may be a more conceivable reality. Or perhaps it’s even more simple, and the majority of Iraqis are realizing that the difficult battle waged over the last year is emerging as a success, not a failure. It follows that their lives can be better now. The future may well be bright–why waste time on a civil war?
Of course, if you really want to, you can still tease a negative headline out of this data, as Susan Page of USAToday demonstrates with “Poll: Most Iraqis live in fear of violence 4 years after invasion.” But as the train that is the new Iraq starts to pull out of the station, Ms. Page and her defeatist cohorts might find themselves, like the Iraqis who would prefer Saddam, in a dwindling minority.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:35 amOn the other hand regime change in Europe is not going as well.
44% THINK THINGS ARE WORSE after U.S. invasion and regime change: “I am talking about Europe. A Financial Times-Harris poll found great discontent with the European Union, which was an outgrowth of the Common Market, which was set up at the behest of the American government as a means of getting the nations of Old Europe to get along and quit having wars every generation or so.”
March 20th, 2007 at 10:36 amKofi was on Saddam’s payroll.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:53 amIED spells flower in their language.
March 20th, 2007 at 11:47 amAnother Iraqi who thinks things were better under Saddam.
Saddam’s former deputy hanged before dawn
MSNBC ^ | March 20, 2007
March 20th, 2007 at 12:45 pmSaddam Hussein’s former deputy was hanged before dawn Tuesday, the fourth man to be executed in the killings of 148 Shiites following a 1982 assassination attempt against the former leader in the town of Dujail. Taha Yassin Ramadan, who was Saddam’s vice president when the regime was ousted, went to the gallows on the fourth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. Bassam al-Hassani, an adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, said the execution went smoothly, although Ramadan appeared frightened and recited the two shahadahs — a declaration of faith repeated by Muslims — “There is no God…
The middle east and Europe better get on their knees and thank George Bush for protecting them and giving them freedom! Iraqis love Bush over Saddam -they don’t want a leader who sponsers terrorism.
Bush has saved the world from the Evil Axis - North Korea and Libbya were so scared they gave up their nukes. Iraq had to learn the hard way. Iran might too - doesn’t matter - they’re all the same -we’ll turn their country into a parkin lot.
March 20th, 2007 at 1:21 pmHow are they doing these polls? How many Iraqis have working phones? How many are too scared to participate? I wonder if the 18% is actually too HIGH of a figure. If I was an Iraqi, I would be laying very low.
When we pull out, there will be much more bloodshed over there until the civil war is over…
What circle of hell is reserved for those who start / contribute to genocide?
March 20th, 2007 at 1:47 pmWhere did all the new wingnuts come from??? All this jibber-jabber must be costing the RNC dozens, if not hundreds, of dollars, given the high quality of their talking-point spewing.
March 20th, 2007 at 2:03 pmhttp://www.niburu.nl/ showarticle.php?articleID=15962
Watch this video! Can anyone explain both video’s, the one shown in the window and the other one from BBC who knew 20 minutes earlier that building 7 would collapse?
March 21st, 2007 at 10:13 amJamie, is this the freedom you’re speaking of?
http://www.niburu.nl/ showarticle.php?articleID=15954
You’re brainwashed, how can you say such things, start thinking and see what is unfolding under your very eyes! The 2 th world war started the same way, the same thinking and the same actions, then the judes were the victim, now the muslims are. Insane world with even insaner leaders and the World is still sleeping.
March 21st, 2007 at 10:20 amThere is no just right for killing people, there never was and there will never be one. In God we trust! God stated that live itself is God and anyone who takes lives is acting against God. Is Bush greater than God?
Mahatma stated,
There is no path to peace, peace is the path!
March 21st, 2007 at 10:25 amHowsad,
Stop the killing by killing themselfes, 1.000.000 people died from the start of the invasion.
What about Prescot bush who founded Adolf Hitler in his war.
What about George Bush senior who was the bos of the CIA when Kennedy got killed. See video, the bodyguards are called off, who called them off?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DA0FxvJQn4
And now Bush junior, what did he do for the world with his insane war on terror, selfcreated and with one hand on the bible?
See the connections? I do. It’s a evil family with even more evil plans!
March 21st, 2007 at 10:32 amAs usual, most of the people who posts here are out of their mind. “Nexus” are you kidding me? Prescott Bush founded Hitler?
I hope you don’t operate any heavy machinery.
Most of you people need to either grow up or move.
Otherwise wait for the next election to do something about it.
BTW - if the Fox News is so bad, why did they cover the Gathering of Eagles & Cindy Sheehans’s anti-war crowd last Saturday when noother outlet covered both?
March 21st, 2007 at 4:21 pmTC, just words you say. look it up on the internet, it’s true. Bush Prescot funded Hitler, he even got covicted for that!
March 31st, 2007 at 7:06 am