Uh, No... he has great respect and support BECAUSE he is standing up to the terrorists...
http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/2004/10/pro-war-on-terror-voter.html
"He's capable and dynamic," she said. "He acts on his words. He always says that he will fight terrorism."
Bush supporter? No. Nor is it an Aussie voter explaining support for Austrialian Prime Minister John Howard's re-election. (See Belmont Club analysis on Howard's relection win - Howard won handily in an encouraging mirror of the Bush-Kerry matchup.)
Nope. It's an Allawi supporter in Iraq, quoted in an article on the upcoming Iraq election.
"I will vote for Ayad Allawi because he is tough and knows very well how to deal with Iraqis," said Suad Hamid, a 46-year-old Muslim Shiite housewife.
Iraqis are impressed with Allawi because he appears to be strong and decisive. "He is the only (one) who can bring security," said Saeb Salman, 28, who has a cigarette stand on a main street in central Baghdad.
Even Mona al-Hussein, who said she did not trust the former exiles, said she may end up voting for Allawi. "He's capable and dynamic," she said. "He acts on his words. He always says that he will fight terrorism." She conceded that Allawi has yet to succeed in crushing the insurgents. "I don't blame him, it's a difficult task."
Allawi's determination to end the militants' control of Samarra, Fallujah and Najaf has impressed many Iraqis, said Baghdad University professor Abdul-Razzaq Naas. Naas predicted that the religious parties will not do well in Baghdad. "Most Iraqis are secular when it comes to voting. They don't believe in religion as part of the state," he said.
With our 'hand-picked' Karzai likely to get re-elected, and Allawi likely to continue support for a time, the voters in both countries are signalling a "yes" to the question: "Are you on the side of Western civilization against the global terrorist network?"
There is a claim that 'confusion reigns' here. But these voters seem particularly discriminating on issues of leadership and being able to DO what it takes to eliminate a scourge. One that many Iraqis oppose as strongly as American voters.
Who are we to judge? We have idiots in America who actually claim that a draft is coming - despite a 402-2 vote to turn it down (only Democrats voted for it, 100% of Republicans against it), despite Bush's ironclad "it's not going to happen on my watch" comment, despite the Bush plan to bring troops home from Cold War deployments in Germany, despite the huge victories in Afghanistan and Iraq that proved we can do so much more with fewer troops than ever before. Yet idiots keep making ignorant claims about the draft coming back. HOW DAFT CAN THEY BE?
The Democrats are flunking, but Pro-War on Terror voters are passing the test globally. They know who we need to win this fight and they are picking accordingly.
Uh, Probably, but two compromisers with “militants” reportedly have gathered greater respect and support of the Iraqi population.
I’ve been a proponent of giving the military greater authority in fighting the war since March, while you’ve been claiming they had it ( now proven otherwise) and cheerleading every political nuance we introduced.
All I’m saying is that now it’s too late for a brutal attack with thousands of dead Iraqi “civilians”. That doesn’t appear what’s planned anyway, but it’s what Jim Noble was suggesting incase you didn’t notice.
We have to be very smart and precise in our assault on Fallujah this close to the election, or the Iraqi people will be dominated by spin up to election day that’s to the disadvantage of moderates. In April we had time to counter it, not today.