🚀 go-pugleaf

They know the treason Kerry committed by giving aid & comfort to the enemy 
during Vietnam, and he's done the same now, so they have every reason to 
believe they can get this country to cut and run by electing him.

Terrorists hope to defeat Bush through Iraq violence

BAGHDAD - Leaders and supporters of the anti-U.S. insurgency say their 
attacks in recent weeks have a clear objective: The greater the violence, 
the greater the chances that President Bush will be defeated on Tuesday and 
the Americans will go home.

"If the U.S. Army suffered numerous humiliating losses, [Democratic 
presidential nominee Sen. John] Kerry would emerge as the superman of the 
American people," said Mohammad Amin Bashar, a leader of the Muslim 
Scholars Association, a hard-line clerical group that vocally supports the 
resistance.

Resistance leader Abu Jalal boasted that the mounting violence had 
already hurt Mr. Bush's chances.

"American elections and Iraq are linked tightly together," he told a 
Fallujah-based Iraqi reporter. "We've got to work to change the election, 
and we've done so. With our strikes, we've dragged Bush into the mud."   
Mowafaq Al-Tai, a London-educated architect and intellectual, said 
different types of resistance fighters have different views of the U.S. 
election.

The most pro-Kerry, he said, are the former Saddam Hussein loyalists - 
Ba'ath Party members and others who think Washington might scale back its 
ambitions for Iraq if Mr. Kerry wins, allowing them to re-enter civic life.

The most pro-Bush, he said, are the foreign extremists. "They prefer 
Bush, because he's a provocative figure, and the more they can push people 
to the extreme, the better for their case."

Abu Jalal, answering questions submitted to him through the Iraqi 
journalist, devised a simple formula for how his group's attacks on 
American soldiers draw votes from Mr. Bush.

"They say there are 1,100 dead soldiers. That means 1,100 families hold 
grudges against Bush and hate him. There are 6,000 families whose sons were 
injured who hate Bush and will not re-elect him."

But even within the resistance, not all agree that removing Mr. Bush 
from office would make a difference.

"The nation of infidels is one, and Bush and Kerry are two faces of the 
same coin," said Abu Obeida, nom de guerre of a leader of Fallujah's al-
Noor Jihadi regiment. "What is taken by force will be returned only by 
force, and we don't care what the results of the elections are."
    
Among ordinary Iraqis interested only in a return to peace and 
stability, there is far less clarity about what the American election might 
bring. Many, like 35-year-old bank branch manager Sahar Mahmoud, say they 
are bewildered by media reports about the nuances of polling, swing states 
and attack ads.

"It's a very big political game, and something that we are very far 
from," he said. "We are very tired people, and we're just emerging from a 
big crisis. So we can't imagine what other people are going through."
Zeydoon Mohamad Jassem Najar, a biology student at Baghdad University, 
simply shakes his head as the U.S. politicians argue over his country's 
fate.

"It's like everybody is looking out for their own interests and nobody 
is looking for the Iraqi people's interests," he said. "It's like a game of 
personal interests between Bush and the other guy."

Mr. Bashar, a professor at Baghdad's Islamic University, said he and 
many of those who oppose the U.S. presence in Iraq were rooting for Mr. 
Kerry.

"I think if Kerry wins, he's going to try to get world support and 
United Nations involvement," he said during an interview at Baghdad's Um 
al-Qura mosque. "You'll see a different situation in Iraq if the United 
Nations is involved."

But Nazar Judi, a 41-year-old money trader who had his right hand cut 
off by Saddam Hussein's security forces nine years ago, is squarely in the 
Bush camp.

"I prefer Bush over the other guy because he knows Iraq well," said Mr. 
Judi, who received a new prosthetic hand from the U.S. Army and was flown 
to Washington to meet Mr. Bush in person. "I hope he wins his election 
because he wants to modernize Iraq."

A photograph of the American president shaking Mr. Judi's prosthetic 
hand hangs on the wall of a back room at his Khademiya office. In the front 
room, however, are portraits of Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the 
vehemently anti-U.S. Iranian cleric, and his successor, Ali Khamenei, the 
current theocratic ruler of Iran.

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20041027-121030-7792r.htm





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