Bush supporters' aftermath thread

Alright, that's just offensive.

DTOM knows I'm just jealous of him living in Cali

You do realize DTOM that statistically speaking, it's about at least 4 to 1 that you nephew's buddy voted for George Bush himself don't you?

Yes. Except for Texas, he got the most votes in Cali

several of my friends voted for bush. doesn't mean we can't still hang around, drink beer and act stupid together.

DTOM...I think I met them They all had "W"s on the backs of their cars LOL.

No, really, I saw tons of "W" stickers on cars out there

I have friends and relatives who voted for Kerry too. They're only a little strange. Most people wouldn't even notice.

DO IRAQIS FEEL LIBERATED?

The key question, and the one answer showing the biggest change since our investigation in April 2003. Just after the war, polls showed that Iraqis were evenly divided about whether they felt liberated or occupied. We said back then that Iraqis have a strong sense of nationhood, and predicted that any sense of being subjected to American hegemony would be strongly resisted. By the time the US ended direct rule of Iraq through the Coalition Provisional Authority in the summer of 2004, only 2 per cent of Arab Iraqis supported the occupation. The overthrow of Saddam had brought none of the political and economic benefits they expected. Today, the only large group in Iraq which still overwhelmingly feels liberated is the Kurdish community, which makes up about 17 per cent of the population.

Despite the supposed handover of power to an Iraqi interim government last year, Iraqis see the US as the controller of the government. Many of them this week referred to the election as "a movie" staged for the benefit of the outside world. Significantly many of those who say they will vote also blame the US for their woes. This is the greatest mistake made by US analysts: the belief that because the Shia are increasingly hostile to the Sunni this means that they accept the occupation. The prestigious Brussels-based International Crisis Group sees the growth of hostility to the US as the most important development in Iraq since 2003. It says in a recent report: "Of all the many changes that have affected popular attitudes since the fall of the Baathist regime, perhaps the most notable has been the precipitous drop in the confidence in the US."