Why They Hate Us Part Umpty-Bazillion
Brilliant at Breakfast | Why they Hate Us
This part just leapt off the screen:
BUSH: That we didn't do a better job or they didn't do a better job?
PELLEY: Well, that the United States did not do a better job in providing security after the invasion.
BUSH: Not at all. I am proud of the efforts we did. We liberated that country from a tyrant. I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude, and I believe most Iraqis express that. I mean, the people understand that we've endured great sacrifice to help them. That's the problem here in America. They wonder whether or not there is a gratitude level that's significant enough in Iraq.
And he wonders why they hate us? No matter what Dinesh D'Souza thinks, they don't hate us because we allow women outside the house, or because of birth control or homosexuality or Michael Moore's weight. They hate us because we have this idea that everything in the world is ours by some kind of divine right -- this "What is our oil doing under their sand" mentality that has caused us to make one boneheaded decision in the Middle East after another for as long as I've been alive.
And this nimrod has the nerve to ask the Iraqis to be GRATEFUL?