Re: today's Orwell moment

and the speech she was giving...doublespeak?

LOL.

(a pro-israeli bias?  wtf. where the hell would ANYONE come up with such
a stupid thought?  this shit blows me away.  shuv it up your ass rice.
maybe we should attack Iran and liberate them also.  Then we'd have a
good chunk of muslims in favor of us....correct? i turn this one over to
you, Orwell.)


U.S. Must Do More to Reach Out to Muslims-Bush Aide
Thu Aug 19, 2004 02:24 PM ET
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6021983
By Caren Bohan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's top security aide said on
Thursday the United States had not done enough to reach out to the
world's more than 1 billion Muslims, many of whom are critical of the
Iraq war and see a pro-Israeli bias in U.S. Middle East policy.

White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said the Bush
administration wanted to encourage "voices of moderation and tolerance
and pluralism" in the Muslim world, and dispel an image that the United
States is a "crass" culture.

It has pursued such goals in the past, but with little success, and Rice
acknowledged widespread skepticism toward America among Muslims.

"We can and we must do more," Rice said in a speech to the U.S.
Institute of Peace.

"Our interaction must be a conversation, not a monologue," she said.

The effort is a crucial part of the fight against terrorism, Rice said,
but she gave no details about how it would be carried out.

The Bush administration has tried to burnish the U.S. image among
Muslims through broadcasts, educational exchange programs and other
measures. Bush has also sought to promote political and economic reforms
in the Arab world.

But these efforts have been widely criticized for being simplistic. Bush
has also been accused by many Muslims of supporting a hard-line Israeli
policy against Palestinians and for failing to place sufficient emphasis
on resolving the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

In an election year, an outreach to Muslims could also make political
sense for Bush.

Pollster John Zogby said preliminary results of a survey of Muslim
American voters in the United States showed overwhelming opposition to
Bush. That is a dramatic shift from 2000, when Republicans actively
courted the Muslim vote and Bush received solid support.

Zogby attributed the shift in sentiment to the war in Iraq, U.S. Middle
East policy and post-Sept. 11, 2001 legislation such as the USA Patriot
ACT, which many Muslims feel discriminates against them.

While Muslims represent only 1 to 1-1/2 percent of the U.S. vote, Zogby
said they could prove to be an important voting bloc in some
battleground states such as Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.



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