Nasrallah tells Muslims 'US will abandon you, just like they did Vietnam'

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Originally Posted by 6SpeedTA95

This idea that muslims hate us is spread by the terrorist. I'd bet that most of the Iraqi's want us to have a presence there for years to come. Granted they probably want it to be smaller but they definately do not want us to fold up and leave.

Seemingly not

A new WPO poll of the Iraqi public finds that seven in ten Iraqis want U.S.-led forces to commit to withdraw within a year. An overwhelming majority believes that the U.S. military presence in Iraq is provoking more conflict than it is preventing and there is growing confidence in the Iraqi army. If the United States made a commitment to withdraw, a majority believes that this would strengthen the Iraqi government. Support for attacks on U.S.-led forces has grown to a majority position—now six in ten. Support appears to be related to a widespread perception, held by all ethnic groups, that the U.S. government plans to have permanent military bases in Iraq.

World Public Opinion
The actual results http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pi...p06_quaire.pdf


The poll show a huge difference between the views of Sunnis & others on virtually everthing

It also shows decreasing support for extremeists as they spread havoc, ..., this is similar to what has happened in Algeria & Egypt & even Northern Ireland

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IMO Nasrallah is trying to isolate the appeal of the west within Iraq, ..., the fact that he feels it worth doing shows that its not hopeless

OTOH he may be playing to an agenda of 'let us come & save you'.