Reuters Lines Up Iraqis Who Hate Bush, Pine for President Hillary

The Reuters wire service has scoured the countryside of Iraq for opinions about who should be elected to the U.S. presidency. Apparently, either Iraq or the Reuters template offered only two options: (a) "change" from the hasty and stubborn Bush team, or (b) and apathy over how America will never change from its ruinous policy. But isn't there anyone in Iraq who is grateful for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, or grateful for the American commitment to stay and help build a civil society? Reuters interviewers couldn't seem to find a one. Reporter Aseel Kami began by underlining the need for change:

Iraqis are avidly watching the 2008 U.S. election race, searching for signs of policy change under a new president and prospects for U.S. troop withdrawals from their country.

"I do not care if the president is a man or a woman, what really matters is the change of American policy towards Iraq," said Muhenad Sahib, a university professor from the southern oil hub of Basra, Iraq's second largest city.

The story reads like a lineup of Iraqis voting rhetorically for Democrats...

[This is despicable. I've been 'harvesting' half a dozen Iraq stories a day (to forward one or two) for years now, and I can tell you from those living there that the overwhelming majority of Iraqis are worried about just the opposite: our leaving too early, and essentially throwing them to the wolves. Leaving the American people with the impression that the majority of Iraqis want us out runs the real risk of becoming a self-fulfilling prophesy - and risks potentially millions of Iraqi lives. Then what? Reuters apologizes {if that}? Dangerous irresponsibility and truly despicable.]

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