Der Duchess is genuinely suprised that the Iraqis don't really like us. I guess when you live in denial and play defense, it's hard to see the truth. Last Year:

I biked past a rather pathetic figure in Dupont Circle this afternoon. barely old enough to grow a beard, this poor soul was wearing a large cardboard placard: "Ashamed American." Ashamed. Ashamed of the liberation of a people from an unspeakable tyrant. It's a form of self-hatred and inverse liberalism that truly boggles the mind.
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Yes, failure and isolation. And it's going to get worse and worse for these deluded apologists for evil.
--Andrew Sullivan, March 21, 2003

The latest poll of Iraqis - skewed because it doesn't include the Kurds - is nonetheless bleak news. Paul Bremer will have spent over a year losing legitimacy completely. The Iraqis still have trust in the Iraqi security forces, while they have little or no trust in the CPA (it has an approval rating of 11 percent).
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A staggering 92 percent view the Coalition forces as "occupiers" as opposed to 2 percent who consider them "liberators;"
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It doesn't get more decisive a judgment than that.