I just can’t figure out why they hate us
If you can’t see it, it is a video of an American soldier taunting Iraqi children with a bottle of clean drinking water. And people wonder why:
74% of Shiites and 91% of Sunnis in Iraq want us to leave within a year. The number of Shiites making this call in Baghdad, where the U.S. may send more troops to bring order, is even higher (80%) In contrast, earlier this year, 57% of this same group backed an “open-ended” U.S. stay.
By a wide margin, both groups believe U.S. forces are provoking more violence than they’re preventing — and that day-to-day security would improve if we left. Support for attacks on U.S. forces now commands majority support among both Shiites and Sunnis.
(Content put together from these 2 posts at Americablog)
Wow, that definitely makes me feel like buying a “support our troops” ribbon for my car. What an ass.