WH says Newsweek lowers USA in eyes of Muslims - HA!

[chaz4jazz]

How about it? Did we go from a 17% approval rating in Islamic nations (due to our illegal war in Iraq and the catastrophe we created there)to an 11 % approval rating because of the Newsweek article? Maybe. Why doesn't this Administration ever admit to their own failings? We are hated more now than ever before because of what this bush/junta have brought upon the world while lying about bringing freedom to the Middle East. How man Islamic citizens of other Muslim countries would trade what misery they have now for the violence and uncertainties of Iraq?

[WLKjr]

They always blame someone else for thier own made trouble

They are pathetic. They don't even realize they are the ones to blame.

[JohnyCanuck]

8. I am quite sure they realize who is to blame,

but with this Newsweek incident they know they now have a handy scapegoat that they can use to shoulder at least some of the blame. Thanks in no small part to the toadies in the corporate media who will happily regurgitate Scotty's talking points that it's Newsweek's fault if Arabs and Muslims are rioting in the streets to express anger at the USA, while the facts that the USA used lies and cooked up, phony evidence to start an illegal war for corporate profit against a Muslim country leading to widespread civilian suffering, death and destruction and and an almost total breakdown of that country's infrastructure will not get mentioned at all.

[WLKjr]

16. well what about that Rumsfeld comment on this whole situation

people better watch what they sayyyyyyy booooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[FreedomAngel82]

12. Oh I'm sure they know it

You know they know it. They're just blaming Newsweek for their little fan base and to save their asses.

[WLKjr]

14. Oh I know, and what get's me is the fact that

that little fan base has such a big bark that it gets people to do stuff like this.

[jmm]

1. You know you're in trouble when

you aspire to the good old days of a 17% approval rating.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

18. Who knew? Do they have Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes?

I mean, I had no idea that Newsweek was so widely viewed in Afganistan. Does the Sweepstake mini-van roll around Afganistan too?
Do they have the same trouble I have choosing between Newsweek and American Dollhouse Collector?

[jazzjunkysue]

20. Without Newsweek, they'd never have figured out we're greedy bigots.

Damn.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. They don't claim that it didn't happen, just that Newsweek

didn't ask the right people.

[xray s]

3. yeah right

hooking up electrodes to genitals and having dogs bite naked prisoners crotches had nothing to do with it.

[havocmom]

4. Pot, Kettle

Kettle, Pot.

How about a completely unprovoked invasion of another nation, the killing of probably over 100,000 innocent people, destroying that nation's infrastructure and the lives of everyone there? Doesn't that lower the USA in eyes of Muslims just a teeny tiny bit/

AAARRRGGGGG. Somebody get the duct tape for his trap and fix it so that imbecile war criminal can't speak out loud?

[bowens43]

5. What fucking idiots....

that shit for brains moron in the oval office has done more harm to our nations image and reputation on 4 1/2 years then anyone thought possible.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

6. Why doesn't this Administration ever admit to their own failings?

Let me count the reasons...

1. there are no failings in their eyes.

2. they perceive admitting failure (should it dare have the gall to exist) a weakness.

3. blaming everyone else is much easier.

4. when acting in the name of God, you are never wrong.

[BattyDem]

7. Oh ... and invading their country for no good reason didn't ...

lower their view of the US? I'm willing to bet the UK memo pissed them off at least as much as the Newsweek story! :eyes:

[Just Me]

9. And the WH APPROVAL OF TORTURE, APPROVAL OF AGGRESSION,...

,...approval of lies and deception, approval of betrayal and manipulation, approval of oppression against all those who speak truth,....has absolutely nothing to do with an additional drop in approval by those upon whom they have wreaked nothing other than havoc and suffering and poverty and death.

Nope. Must be a squib in a short report by a magazine only popular in the USA.

Yup. That must be it. Must be.

Incredible. This administration asserts crap that not only defies all logic but also all common sense and intuition.

I believe this pack of inhumane predators have seriously underestimated people,...and completely overestimated their own power to oppress. A wise person once said that the gods make over-confident those men who must fall.

[unhappycamper]

10. From CNN's front page

I grabbed this from CNN's front page before it disappears. Nice picture, eh? Any of you Photoshop experts care to comment?


Muslims in India get their message across.

(I am posting this picture / question in all Newsweek threads.)

[BattyDem]

15. Why would they want Newsweek banned?

Wouldn't they be happy that the truth about US tactics has been revealed? :shrug:

This doesn't past the smell test ... especially since they're holding signs that look like they were printed at Kinko's! :eyes:

[jasmeel]

17. Are you suggesting these pics were photoshopped? n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

11. I think they did it on their own

They did this all on their own. Newsweek was just trying to show us what they were doing to Muslims.

[atommom]

13. So who is more to blame....

those who commit atrocities against Muslims, or those that let the rest of us know about it?

[progressivebydesign]

19. Wow. Newsweek wired up those prisoners and beat others to death?

Pretty fucking evil for a magazine!! And here I thought it was our troops and their superiors responsible for the torture, humiliation, and killing of people in Iraq. Silly me.

God.. those people can spin anything.